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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at |http: //books .google .com/I I 8i.0839V iliiiH mavsm NON 1^1 ^ LiiQiiizcduyGoogli: 8 /.082S V iiiii uvinwD NON r DolizodbyGoOgle . „,.™.,.,Cooglc _,.,l,™:,., Cookie Sir Jamik;s Wishaet, ^ ftiailizodbyGoOgle BIOGRAPHIA NAVALIS; OB, * IMP^RTUl MEMOIRS •tlVlS AND CHAB.ACTEKS OFFICERS OF THE NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN, Fnou Tus TEAR 1660 re tbs PsisexT Tjusi jiBAWK raaia tbi uorr ADTBiirrrc iovtett, a-kp »ii»o«ib m a By JOHN QHARNOCK, Esq^ Br BAJITOLOZZI, ae. Nnixque, per ocnne Audacet mare qui currunt, hie menie laborem Sele ferre, fenei at id oiia tuta rccedanc. Horace, Sat. 1. Lib. \U FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. 11. LOK()ON: rot. Jt. FAIILDeR,BOND-lTILCET, »795- L„u,i,;™u,Googlc . „,.™:,.,Googlf 5 3 J'l BIOGRAPHIA NAVALIS, &c. 1674. "TJEST, William,— was appointed commander of th« rj Europa hulk in 1674; and, on the 2mh of April 1^8, was removed into the America, aveflel of the fame defciiption. BURKE, William, — was made lieutenant of the St. Paul firethip as earlv as the year 1665, and was in a very fliort time afterwards removed into the Eriftol. In l66d, a rupture with France being daily apprehended, the equipment of a fleet became neceffary, and Mr. Burke was commiflione4 as lieutenant of the Defiance ; from which ifaip he was foan afterwards removed to the fame ilation on board the Catnbridge, and before the concluiion of the year was promoted to the command of the Portf- mouth Hoop- In 1 67 1 he again ferved as a lieutenant on board the Tyger; and, in 1674, was made captain of the - Ifle of Wight yacht : after which time we meet with noihins; relative to him. DELAVAL, Sir Ralph, was the third fon of fir Ralph Delaval, of Seaton Delaval in the county of Northumber- land, created a baronet by Charles the Second, on the agth of June 1660. He appears, if that circumftance confers any additional honour, to have b;en defcended from a family of the greateft antiquity, Thomas Chal- Jock, bifhopof the Orcades, fteward to M^irgarct prin- cefs of Denmark, confort to James the Third king of A 2 ScutUnd, L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 4- LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF Scotland, drew its pedigree,' which bears the fsUowina title. " An exai^ and true genealogy of the moft nobla and ancient lords of Gouldbranfal in the kingdom of Norway from ihe heathens time, progenitors of the inoft Doblc and ancient name of Delaval," The pedigree' commences with Harold, furnamedHairfaugcr, faid to have been crowned king of Norway in the year 858, and who married Offa, or OiFa, third daughter of Gouldbrand, or Colbrand, king of Dall, and Signielda, daughter of Sige- fird, or SigricTim, otherwife bichtrig wiih the Silkea Beard, kingof Sogan fn Norway. The pedigree is carried on lineally from Gouldbrand ; whofc grandfon appears to be the celebrated champion who attended St .Olaus to England, and was killed by ihe well-known Guy, or rather Hugh, earl of Warwick ; through fourteen defcents to fir Guido Delaval, knight, in the rpign of king John". The great grandfather of Guido,' Heryy, was the firft who is faid to have tcfided at Seaton, which appears to have been, nd Bigl^nd. t Sir Ralph it faid, in an official pittt prefenicd to the houfe oi commom in the month of Fcbiuary logg, to have taken poU from iheCihof January 167E, D,Q,i,;.du,GoogIt: KAVAt OFFICERS OF GitSAT tRlTAtN. ^ ift of DSober 1688, he was appointed to cotti maud the York. Though he does not appear to hate been a very leading or active perfon during the tumult and confiilion into which the nation was thrown foOn afterwards, and which terminated in the revolution, yet king William muft have been thorou^ly well perfuaded of Delaval's firm attachment to his ihtereft, as he had fcarcely taken polTcinon of the throne when he appointed him ircar admiral of the blue. On the 31ft of May 1690, he was deputed, by the reft of the officers of the ficet, to pi-efent an addrefs • to king William. On this occafion he re- ceived the honour of knighihoodj'and was alfo promoted to be vice-admiral of the blue: in which ftation, having hoided his flag on board the Coronation, he fervcd at the unfortunate adion off Beachy Head, which took place foon afterwards t. The Dutch writers, and rear-admiral Evertien himfelf, who was prefcnt at the a^ion, have • *' May 7t plcafc yonr Majcflie*, " We the flagomccri, capuini, and olher oSkers of yoar Dnjeftiet ntvy, being now mdy to enter Dpon lElion for ibe ftrvlce of jinion,. given by the Engiifti commanders, that the mi^ortune of the Dutch was principally owing to their own fcdly and want of condu^. Sir Ralph himfelf, in his evidence given to the comminioners of the admiralty, exprcfsly fays, that the Dutch did not bear down to. the enemy with that attention to order they ought to have psud. > Englilh writers have treated (Tr Ralph with much mow liberality ^ attlibuttng to him that fiiare in this very unequal contelt which he certainly bore, and which his gallantry eminently contributed to render as little produdive of national til as pofEble, confidcring the very great difad- vantages under which the combined fleet laboured. The king himfelf entertained the moA honourable opinion of his conduct and merit, as may naturally be inferred from his being appointed prefident of the court-martial, held foon afterwards, for the trial of the earl of Torrington. It is not, perhaps, the Icall forcible proof of that noble lord's L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: HAVAt OtFICEBS OF O&EAT BKITAIH. J lord's innocence, tfaat 4iis unthankful piece of duty wu Tdlled in the perfon it was : Delaval is known to have diiapproved of fome parts of the call's condud, aitd to have publicly expicfled hit cenlurc ; yet this was confined' to points fo trivial, when compared to the magnioxle a£ - the accufation, that candour, jiutice and honour conCdero ably out-weighing private opinion, and, perhaps, perfoiui prejudite, produced the acquittal of the earl, from the mouth of a man who had been himfelf a witnefs of hit conduA, and was generally fuppofcd to be prejudiced in his disfavour. Immediately afVer the enguemeot off Beachy Head, a f^uadron was formed of fucn £ips as were in the belt con> dition for ferrice, and put under fir Ralph's command, for the pUT3>ofe of fcouring the Channel of all petty anna- ments, and alfo to dillrefs the commerce of the enemy. He had the good fortune to intercept a fleet of Swedith ^ merchant-lliips, laden with naval Itorcs for, France, of which he captured feven. Early in the following fprittg he was appointed to command a Aill ftronger fquaoron, confiding of twenty-fix fliips of the line, fent over to the coaft of France on the fame kind of fervice, and man particularly to block up the port of Dunkirk. Thefe orders he diligently executed : and when the larger ibipa were laid up for the winter, in the month of September . following, adetachment ofdiird and fourth rates, liationtMl to the wcftward, was put under his command. On diis occalion he removed his flag into the Berwick of fcventy guns. In the month of January he was app(»nted to command the Streights convoy, which he conduced with much care andfuccefi: and returning immediately with the home- ward-t>ound fleet, had the equal good-fortune to bring it fafe into the Downs, where he arrived on the i8th olC March. He came to London immediately on his arrival, and was promoted to be vice-admirat of the redi and agatQ appointed commander of a fmall fnuadron, fent over to - the coaft of France, for the proteaiMi of the homeward- bound fleet daily expefied from the Streights. The de- llni£tion of this drttachment, and another of nearly the fame force linder rear-admiral Carter, were tfie objeds that influenced Louis the Fourteenth to Older Tourville A 4 to L„u,l,.™u,C00^IC 9- HVES AMD CHARACTERS or to tet, 'which ibdn broiight on the cvcr^iuemorabre anj ^ortous battle of La Hague *. Having happily execuud the fervice riiicipil pramoten of ibe fecond iMreli pre. teattd (O iheqJccn, io the munih of May 1698, expreffive ofthe^ lojrilly vtd allaclimcni of ihe nava] commandcri, a vtiy fufficlcnl ce- fuiaiion, ai lead in the opinion of all hoaojiablc men, of the cbargc^ or even fufptcion of diCaffcflron. t With KiUegiew and ShoTcl. Tha LiiuiiizcduyGoogli: NAVAL OFFICEKS OP GREAT BRITAIIT. 9 The unfortunate naval _event of this year * caufed a ge- neral clamour, which induced tKe difmiflion both of Dclaval and KiUegrcw. Thefc were the more obnoxl5tations were formed of ihc fuccefs of this armament, which was . thought the moll powerful Britain had ever poflclTcd ; yet, perhaps, few had ever put to fea in lefs real condition for ftrvice, fliortly manned and worfe vi£luallcdt. Its numbers made it appear formidable on the ocean. Eat it was almoft totally incapable of undertaking any enter- prize a|ainll the enemy. Thefe were the impediments, aided by the total want of information at homcy and a trcafonable com- munication of intelligence to the enemy, all which were too notorious to be concealed from the public Yet fuch was the prevalent voice of party, that tliefc very inconve- niencies were, contrary both to joftice and common fenfe, ' converted into a treafonabic neglect on the part of the joint admirals. Shovel, indeed, was fortunate enough to fioJTefs the hearts of the clamorous, and was exempt rom the pretended ftigma which quickly produced the difmiflion of both his colleagues. On the 2d of May 1694, RufTel, who had become again re inllared in the pa- pular favour, was appointed firll commiflioner of the admiralty in the room of lord Falkland: and Delaval, w^o had til] then retained his feat at the board, retired for ever from that bufy fcene of life J in which he had endured fo much calumny, and with fo littte juftice. From this time till his death, which happened in the month of January 1707, he lived totally retired, rcfiding chiefly upon his eflate m the north, where his pofTeflions were very extenfive, and enabled him to difplay much hofpitality and charily, fothat he had the confolation of finding the friends he acquired in private life confiderably outDumbeted -the enemies, who had unwairantably rifen * The capture sf ihe Smyrna fleet under convoy of lir G. Rocke. + So ihit the (hip's contpanki were obliged 10 be put to Qioii al- lowincc, almoft » Coon at ihe fleet quieted port. ] IF we except thit he continued Tor fome time reprefcDntive for Greii Bedwin, in Ac county of Willi. Oo ihtidoflfLty 1696, he prefcnted, id king Wijliam, the Affi>ciatiun imm that baoagb, in COafe^cuce of im aflaffiaitioa plot. up , „,.™v,Coogli: 10 LIVES AND CHAKACTXRS OF Up againft him in his public capacity. — He tras buried in Wcuminfttr, witli great folemnily, on the tjth ^^ ^'^^ promoted to the command of the Qualier ketch; but was dlfmiiled the fervice foon afterwards for fubmitting to be towed in by the Turks. We have not been able to colle3 any par- ticulars relative to this ail which occafloned his diicracc. KIRK, John, — in 1667, fcrved as lieutenant fuccef- fivelv, of the Monmouth and the Mary. In 1673 he was appointed third lieutenant of the London, on board which Inip fir John Harmao hoilted his fiag as vice-admiral of the red, and afterwards as admiral of the blue fquadron. On the i6th of March 1675, he was promoted to the comrnand of the Kingshlher ; and when a rupture with France was expected in 1678, he was appointed commander of the Lenox, and foon afterwards of the Hampton Court. This is the lateftinfotmationwehave been able to coUe£t relative to him. 1676. HASTINGS, Anthony, — was defccnded from a very noble family which derives its origin from Robert de Haftings, tKc father of William, ftewardofthe houfhold to king Henry the Firit. Thegrandfonof Wiiliam, who was alio a William, was among the barons fuminoned to parliament by king Joha in the &r{t year ef bis icign. Thi« L„u,l,.™u,C00glt. HA VAL OFFICERS OP ;aad,^condly, Anae, ?rand-daii«hier orThoinuBroiherroa, eldcB Ton of king Edinrard lbs irl), bjr Margtrei hit fecond wife, daughter to Pbtlip the hviy, itlag of France. -f He wia the grandfon of Heniy HiDiagiof Lciceflar-abbey, knight, ■ad Mabel], daughter of Aalbony Ffaunt, or Farrani, of f oftou in the county of Leiccfler. Henry, above-mentioned, wai ibe foti of fir EchnidHaftingi, fecond, oj,foiaciiiy, tbirdloDaf Fiaocii, feceai Ctrl of Hmuiagdon. - pirat« u, Google IS tlVfiS AND CftARAofiiKi of pirates had always been long and defpcratc. This Wafr rendered particularly obftinate from the lieutenant's being an Englifti renegado, who, confrquenlly, knew he could cxpe£l no mercy. He was hanged imiticdiately after the enemy's Ihip was taken po(Je(Ilon of. From the time capiain Haflings quitted the command of the Adventure, which is a peiidd not known, he does ' not appear to have been employed lill (he very eve of the revolution. On the i2tli of Oflober 1688, he was appointed commander of the Woolwich, and had the fortune to capture two of ihe few veffels of the Dutch armament which the fleet of James, powerful as it was, was, able to intercept. Notwilhflanding he had thus faithfully adhered to the intereft of his fovercign while he retained legal pofleflion of the throne, he had patriotifm fiifficient to amil heartily in the revolution and arrange- ment of government, which took place immediately on his defcriing it. Willi^im was fo well atfured of his honour and mtegrity, that he promoted him, foon after his acceflion, to the command of the ElTex of feventy guns. In the following year he was removed into the Sterling Caftle, a (hip of the fame force as the former: he commanded this veifel at the battle of Beachy Head. The year 1691 ingloriotifly paHl-d away without any en- gagement, the French cautiw.'fly avoiding a fecond trial of. ■ their prowefs, in which they might probably lofe the little temporary credit they had gained the preceding fummer. The year 1692 mufl ever be remembered, by Englilh- mcn, as the a;ra of (■ne of thofe vidlorieS which have cftablilhed, on a foundation not to be fliaken, her naval credit and confeqiicnce. At the battle of La Hogue cap- lain Mailings commanded the Sandwich, a fecond rate of runety guns, and fell, towards the conciulion of the firft day's fight*, having dcfervedly acquired, and uniformly fupporled the charafler of a brave and truly honed man. His body was brought a-fliore at Portfmouth, and is faid to have been conveyed to London for interment t. .• Nolbtingable to avoid diiring among i he enemy'i Ihipt, be- eaufe hii anchors were noi clcir. Lidiard. t " Coboct Hilliiigi, who wai killed in the Eght, wai buiicd on the 7ihof June in g'cji ftilc, the quceo Tending her co«hr.», and ihe nohiliiy and (gentry iwo hundred more ; ihe whole being efconed by eifiht conipaniet of suaids."— .-Ciiiiipbcll, vol. 3. PYNARD, ..Cookie NAVAL OFFICEKE OF (fBEA'^ BRITAIN. 1677, BYNARD, Walter,— was, in 1672, appointed iirft {ieutenant of the Monmouth, and in the following year pf the Royal Patherine. Qn the 24th of Otlober 1677, lie was promoted to the command of thp Ann galley. GOTTEN, Andrcv/, — was, on the 20th of July 1677, appointed commjinder of the Eifpcrimeiit. On the 1 6th of January following he was removed into the Hound floop, and on the ifih of Febniary 1679, into the Chatham. From the ;oth of July 1680, when he wa« appointed to command the Fanfan yacht, tlH fome time after the revolution, he continued in the fame line of fer- Vice. On the 2cth of Oilobcr i68r, he was removed into the Monmouth yacht, and from thence into the Navy ■yacht on the aoih of February 1682-3. He was re-com- miflioned to the fame velFel on the 24.th of March 1 684-5. We meet v^ith nothing farther relative to him till after the revolution, when we find him captain pf the Charlotte yacht. In the mpnth of May 1689, he captured a fmall French privateer, which is the only circumflance to be recorded of him beyond the lift of appointments and pro- motions. On the 29th of Augull he was made comman- ■ der of a veflel called the Play Prize. In the month of May 1 693, he was captain of the Northumberland, a third rate of fcventy guns, and died in the command of this fhip on the i3ih of June following. CROW, Anthony,~is moft remarkable for never having commanded a;iy other vefTel than a yacht, called, the Kitchen, during the whole period of his fervice, Tvhich continued from the 17th of April 1677, till the revolution. He was four times re-commiflioned to the fame veffcl, on the ift of April 1685, on the 3d of June 1687, on the 3d of May 1088, and again, on the lit of June following. We meet with nothing relative to him after the revolution. He is faid in a MS. account of the flight of James, fuppofed to have been written Toon after the L;,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: 1+ 1,IVE3 AND CHARACTERS OF the revolution, fo have commanded the vefTel in which that monarch made his efcapc to France, This may ac- count for his having quitted the fervice as he appt-ars to . have done from that time. FARMER, William, — wasappointcdcommanderofthe Bezan y^-ht on the i6th of January 1677, and was rc- commlllioned to the fame veflel on the rath of Aueuft 1680. . HARTLEY, Mark, — was made lieutenant of the Cambridge in 1668, and third lieutenant of the London in 1673. On the 12th of July 1677, he was promoted trj the command of the Woolwich fl'oop. HODDER, Richard,-i-wa9 made fecond lieutenant of the Antelope as early as the year 1664: in t666, and jgain in 1071, he was appointed to the fame llation on koard the Dover. In 1672 he fenrcilas firft lieutenant of the Rainbow, in the following year of the Portland; and on the Qth of March 1674, was removed into the Guard- knd. He was promoted to the command of this vcflcl an the 23d of May 1 677 ; after which, on the 2d of Oc- tober 1684, he was made Brft lieutenant of the Phoenix. LLOYD, David, — is a pcrfon who has made a much greater figure in' the political than the na\'al world. He was appointed lieutenant of the Henry ra 1672, and was ' promoted to the command of the ^enAald on the i8tb 4^* September 1677. He was removed into the Refcrve on the lith of April 1678: on the 27th of May in the following year he was ag;ain removed into the Dover. On the aoth of Oflober i68o, he was made commander of the' Crown and fcnt on the Medtteirancan (lation, Vrhere he continued x conliderable time. He had no Other cohimiflion till the 5th of May 1687, wh«fn he was appointed captain of the Sedgetnore. His naval fervice Ctt^ed with the revolution. Strongly attached both to the perfon and politics of James the Second, he accompanied him into txile, and ever continued his fteady adherent. The management of almolt all thofe tntrignes which took place aftertheacceflion of William the Third were entrutted 10 him; he was his confidential agent ; and, to (to juftice to his fincerity, we cannot hut confefs, that whatever opinion wc may eater- ' tain of the complexion of his politics, he was uniform and Heady ..Cookie NAVAL OFFICERS OP CRIAT BRrTAIH. IJ firady in them ; a confiilency very few of his cotempo- nries-had any pr«en(kins to. He frequently revifitcd England at the greateQ porfonal riJk to himfelf ; and far the feivice of bis mafter hefitatcd not to put his life into the power of thofc of whofe duplicity and treachery to others he bad had fo many proofs. He continued to refide in France many years after the deceafe of his roya) tnaftcr; but is faid to have relumed to England in tht year 1714, and to ha'c died fiiddcnly foon'afterwards*. MAJOR, James, — was^on the 20th of Ofiober 1677, Appointed commnder and mailer of the Fly-bnat prize, by fir JohnNatborough, i^t that tiine:CommancJer-in-chief ' in the Mediterranean. MITCHELL, Andrew,— was, on the pth of Julf 1677, tnadc captain of the Emfworth (loop : on the iztff of June 1678, he was removed, by commillion from vicei admiral Herbert, Into the Woolwich j and laflly, on the i7th of February 168^-3, was appointed commander of the Dcptford yacht. MITCHELL, Sir Baltimore, — was made captaift of the Deal yacht in the year 1677. Commanding 0tisvefiei at the time king Charles took one of thofe little ami cxcurfions of which he was fo remarkably fond, that monarch oonferred on him the honour of knighthood. His name docB not again occur at having held any com* mand. PULHAM, John, — was appointed commander of thi Ann Speedwell in 1677. SHOVEL, Sir Cloudcfly,— is one of thofe Angularly foi-ttmate and great charaflers who have raifed themfelvea putely by their own intrinfic merit, from the humbldl * Two anecdotci related of him by Df^rymph, prove bim to hive ^en a man polTefled of a conGderable Oure ot bluat bonovr. Tbtf ate 100 expreffive of hii chxnScr to be omitted. Jnne* wii one ity coittptilninfj 10 hii counier* of bii ejdeft dngfater, bot fpeifcing with icndemcli of ihc orinccfi Anne. Capt. Lloyd, of the navy, who liked not the Ut) pin of the convcrration, quiiied the Toom ; but, turning back hii head ai be Oiui the door, Kotiered aload, " Both b - , by G—." Jamci wai exprefGng joy 11 bt. Gcrrtiaina, upon the nevri thai the Idngof Sian had been converted toCbtiOianity, " 1 am lorry for it, (but Lloyd) foe then hi* fnl^e£& will depofe iuin," 2 fiaticu U,r,l,z<,i:,.,G0*pglf l£ f.IVES AND CHARACTERS OT Ration in life, and for a Jong feries of years poflefled the ^ove of all thofe wiih whom they aflbcialed, the general applstifc of the people^ and the fnpil unlimited confidence of thic fovcreign, withotit ever experiencing thofe guils of private animolity, public calumny nr royal diltruft, to ■which the greateft charafters are not only fubjeft but have aftually e^peripnced. Fortunate almolt in every enter- prize he undertook, he had the lingular confolation of finding the partial failure of thofe few which funk below the public expedlation, and probably his own, were im- puted, as a misfortune to hifn and not a crime; and that -the public voice, inltcad of condemning, pitied him as a friend and brother in diftrcfs. Thus was he compara-^ lively happy in every adioQ of his life ; and his death ap- pears a l^nbn, from Provid^nfe, to mankind, that no man IS born to be completely fortunate. Thi.' great man was defcended from parents who were in fuch circumftances aa not to .be able to make any better provifion for him, than by binding him apprentice, as it is reported by Dr. Camp^llj to a Ihoe-maker. This mean occupation ill-fuiting to the nobjenefs of his difpo- fition, he procured himfclf to be recommended cxceied- ingly young, being at that time not more than nine years or age, to the patronage of fij- Johfi Narborough, who made him one of his cabin-boys J and fqon • difcovcring in him that genius and greatnefs of mind which paved tho way to his future promotion, pitched on him, in the year 1674, as the propeied perfon in thefquaclron,to fend witK 9 remonftrancc, to the Dey of Tripofi, againft a variety of piratical a^ls of hollility which had been committed by ois corfairs. ^f^. Shovel was inlirufted tq accommo- date, if poflible, the difference which exiftcd, on very, moderate terms. But though he acquitted himfelf in this . * Of hi* eiily prpfteuGiy ro undcnake grcal ind glorioui deedi, • (ingolai inflincc 11 given io a tiadliional hui luihcniic anecdote, pfc- fcrvcd by his dcrcendanii. Almofton his Nrll eninnce inio the naty, ondei ihc patronage of (ir JahnNaiboniugh,Khil<.-he waiyeihisboy, hearing (hat admiial exprcU an cdrnefl k ijb th*L [omc papers of im- Soriance niighi be convrjfd 10 ihc capiain of a diltani jhip, youpg hovel unrleiiotiklo fwjm thiougb iht line of the encmy't hie with iha dilf iiichci ia hit mouih. Tliii ne actually pcilgrmed. deli. L;,u,i,;.du,Goo^Ii: KAVAL OFFICKIS Ot GREAT BRITAIN. %J delicate commilEon 'with the greaiefl fpirit aad addielB, he vras nOt able to ^¥OIk ihc haughty Oey (o comptiuKe. A fecond attempt and vifit vere equally uDfucccfiiiul : but the obrcrvaiions he had made duiing the fhort time he vas on the Ihore, enabled hioi to projcdl the demolition of the TripoUae fquadron, though it lay at anchor under the very guns of the town. On ictutning to :his Oiip be .communicated his fdicme to his admiral and patrun, ftr John Narboiough, who thinking no pcrCbn To nt to carry an coterpiize.into execution as the perfon who had plan- ned it, Tent him, on the night of the 4ih of March, with all the boats of the fleet into the harbour. The molt brilliant and perfefi fucccfs attended the undertaking, and contributed not a. little toencreafc, if poRible, the eileem and a&AioD entertained for him by the admiral, who foon after appointed l|im to the command of the Sapphire*. 1q the beginning of tlic month of Novembei 1679, -being then at Tangier under the cutnmand of admiral Herbert, captain Shovel was one. of the ofEcerE fent op (bore, with a party of feamen, to aflin in the defence of that place agajnfl the Mooulh army, by which it was be- fieged. On the 8th the enemy made a dcfperatc, but fruitlefs attempt, to ftotm the lihet, and were repulfed after a trivial uijury dose to the Englifh, in which no- thing was more fevere than the temporary lofs of captaip Shovell'a ferviccs, occalioncd by a wound, happily if£ no worfe confequence. In themonih of September 1081, being removed into the James galley he fdl in, while in company with his old fbip the Sapphire, with a lam Algerine corrair mounting thirty-two guns, called toe Half Afoon, and, after a long and defperate a^^, took her. In the month of December following captain Shovc)» afliAed by captain Booth of the Adventure, drove on fhore, near Mafagnun, another corfair called ,ihe I'lower'pot, carrying thirty-four guns and three huadred men- But it being then dark, thc-y were obliged to defer her com- plete deltnidion till day-light, when they fent their boats on board and burnt hei. During the remainder of this war troublcfome at it was, though with enemies ap- • 3d May 167;. Vol. II. B pareptly L„u„,.™o,Coo^Ic 'i8 ■ lives AMD CHARACTERS ■OV •parcRtty .fd tnconfidcnible, cWpiai^n Shovel coniinucd io r e nde r himfelf as formidable as perfKtual diiiurbance -given to rti^ir rfepr«tation9> tend the liitle commeice they nfcld vith the Rft of the world would admit. In parti- cular, on the [4th of January 16S2-3, he capturwt ooe of their faiteasf and in the month af February 16IJ5, ndt only rfeflntyed one of the richelt merChant-teirels bckmg- ine to Saline, but alfo coiii|)ctled one ot' their ct>rrair9, . tnoanting twenty-eight gmw, to fecit refuge under the •vrxUs of their fort. He did not rcmrn from tlie StVeights till ihe moiiih of November 1686. So high was the tipinion entertained by J'afnts of Mr. Shovel's hondiir, 'tfiat although he knew his political principles were holHk to his own, he thought proper to appoitit him to the conv- niand of (he Dover, in which Ihition he w«, when the landing of the prince of Orange, aiid abdication of his fbrmer fovereign, freed his loyalty from reftrsrint, and en- abled him to unite courage with iiictinatton in the (itrvioe of William the Third. At the battle of BaAtry he com- manded the Edgar, and fo nmct) did he difliHgiiiDi himfclf in that a^ion, that he was knighted by king Wiliiatn it the fame tinw admiral Herbert was creatsdeatl of Tot- rington. He removed foon aftenfards into the Monk, and was appointed commander of a fquadron, conlifting of Four fhips of war and live fmalt vafTels, Itatiorted to cniife up and down Channel and off the coait of Ireiand. In this fervice he met with conflderable fuccefs, taking many prizes, which, though not very Valuable, perhapi, to the captors, diftrefied the enemy to the grcatelt -degree, as their cargoes principally cOnlifled of Itorcs for James's ■ Irifii army. In the following year he was commodore of the fqiia- dron which convoyed William to Ireland \ and To much to the fatisfaflion of his fovereign did he ac«)uit himfelf, iJttt he was immediately appointed rear-admiral of the bhie. He continued cruifmg in the Irifti fea a cot>lider- able time, and omitted noT the fmallelt opportunity of rendering fervice to his country and difplaying his natural inclination, a love of emerprile. Preverted, as well by the fudden arri%'al of a French ftect, as by the necellity there'was Ibr keeping a force to watch the flying fqua- dfon of th« enemy, Ee was not prefcol at the aflion off Beach/ DolizodbyGoOglt: vAr-AVpTTtceti/sxir ostat' ««itain. ' tg ©rtcily-iHfead. ^-riwaids the doTe of the year tie affiled ' ^mcnil KirkK in the rethiftion of Duncannon coftle ; ar.d in TamMiy folloiviBa; ferved as rcar-adrairal under fir George .Hoolc^-, who convoyed king WilliKm to HoJi&nd. On Wis rrtiira be joiniSd the rrand fleet under adtnifel AuJE;!., and by a very flriMbV •ftraiagem had nearly fijt- ceeded in decoying a Hr^ French convoy into. his hands -|uft after rixry -ha^ left the harbour nf Hnrit*. ■ In the .^tomfi 4f OAober he cominanded the fquadron whi«h ■conveyed king Wiliiairt from Holland. Earty in tie loltowing year fcc wal promoted to bc'rear-adtniral of tie- l-ed:'»nd OR his wlurn from again canvoyihglting Wii- Inn xv-UolUBd, joined the fleet under ths command cf .-•Attiral RWTel. On this tnemor^lc occaAon 4ie hotfttd Wa fl^varboacd the Royal William, a new Ihip of otie }hiMked arid fix gum. He hod now a frclh opportunity, which he YJid not n«gld£t, of "additig to'thofe Imtrels ie had already acquired.- The red fi^twrftot^ ^f Which he was rear-admiral, boie the whole bnmt odfroijnhe(n,fx«pt sVreneh Frigaie of bclwpcn ihityind forty Enl, who fleered direflly before tbem, hut it was brcjufe he mift y*, br before, be w» comini; (-wiv betwixt the Plvmouth ind Ceo- curioDj but apprehemliiw what iboy were, bore »w»y lo (he Itevatd; ill pifGog by, Cr Clouddly fbM hit nuin.yard; Eleven he left, betnn got among the rocki, where they could not come at him, he cfcaped. There were ia all about chiny fmall vefleU .ind three convoyj; fix or fevea were ukcn by out Onpt. The Bridget gatlfy chnfed one »- ■>»iv Mid bornt her | tbe rcO, with cbeir two convoyi, got into the t £fe «ru illb appointtd one f(ht: alfo he buriel in oblivion hii repeated ■Oiiiificci of hii being ready, and bii great inurancc io lAjng convey for Tome rriachine, or fink-fliipi, he preteoded to bive at OAendf when, M far a* I can learn From tbcMc, ihere bare been none (here, ' neither ate there any exprScd. I verily believe, and am not En- nlar ia my opiaian, that ibeb (ink-lbipi, and machinei, wen only m inventiaD Io fweJl kit icconmi, vhich, 1 fuppofe, if ibey were well looked into by fome underlUodiiM maa, would appcir monflrou^ for it ia (aid he bad fome tnaicriali on board hit fmoke.Qiipi, or macbinei, •• baireliof gum, &c. which were of no more ufe Uian if be had pQt fo many ftonn there." " Ak fccouMtefiaiat Mat cceurrtdto Wf fifervatiiM a.tiimnmy,in t»> Aui

adt a. cotindl of war uni called, ai which it wu rcfolved (if tht wealba^ provf d finr } to begin the attack on the morrow morniat. " Wedneldaysi. Ttiii da; the wetther awpr(imingfair«edc u- quaiiitcd my loid Berkeley with, who lent captain Wafleoacr le Mr. Heeftrri, to infbnn him of tfia ftwe. As I uadcrflaod c^p-i. tain Waffctiaer, upoii hit renirn from Mr. Meeflcri, be brought word- Mr. Merfierc faid he could do h)> bu line A without the baftcriag Uprt >qd moR certain it it, when we met Mr. MeeHeri in bit boat aftciw wardt, he made no complaint (or want of them, (tor did be bf any ibjng to my lotd about altering the difpofiiion of bit auxk. " 'Til flirthCT obfervabic that the piloM, notwitbflaniUng tbe aCt farancc giVcn that they would lake rhwgt of the frigate* m carry tfaen in to the attack, and out at the ealt cbanne), >>I fovf leiSt't aiucbbieitt B-4 juiflxio^r L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 24 Lives AND cnARACTBUS OT gulfhing himfcif which his cmiragc mi^t demand and his experience claim, het it not, however, be fuppofed he remained ina^ive. In the month of April 1696, he commanded the fquadran which covered the bombardment of Calais*; and in the month of Oflobcr following, having hoilted his fiag as admiral of the blue on board the Queen^ he foiled on the r7th of Dec. from Spithead, to attempr thc del>ru£tion of a fquadron of French ihips of war re- ported to be in Qujberon Bay. This intelligence proving falfe, he quickly returned, but not before he had fent " Monliguc, at acchor off (he Noiih Forcliod, 51b April, 1696. " Right honourable, " Purruint 10 your lordOiip'! orderiofthe 31(1 of March, we, [he 3d inftuit, having very fail weather, got before Calaii with outtiomb vcflcli; and the wind being fombcrly, which made a fmooih Tea, viC laid oui bomb-vcfTcla in 3 line, and aboot noon begaa [o beave Ihellt at the lown, and coniinued To doing liil ihe evening; in all which lime wc expended upwardi of 300 bombs and carcafci, many of which were feen to fall and break both in the town, and among iheir embaikaiiont at (he pier, I fupcofe ihey have done confldcraUc damage to the enemy, though ooibins appeared to us more than a vcITeI being on fire in the harbour, and iKc town ia two 01 three fevcral places, which were immcdiatct/ extinguidied. " The enemy were very af)i*e with their row-boati and half ealJeyi ; . but to prevent then) from hindering or injuring our bomb.velTelj, the fria(ei and briganiinu kept very near them as indeed (bey were obligrd to do- " The damage we received it, the bonib-vclTels have their rigging much IfaaitcTcd, and two of tbem arc very leaky by reafou offfaot TCCcivrd under water j the mortars all fpoilcd but iwo) the brigan* (ia» have iheir rigging much (haitoed too, andiwoof ihcmhaveloS their Top-maOsi the Jerfi:]- has bo[h main-mafl and fore-maft Oiot through and fpoilcd, as alfo a Ihot under water which makes her leaky j a bomb fell inro bcr, broke in her hold, and fct her on fire; it wm foon cxiingailhcd; but it is re<]iiis as had received damage, and white the fcafon of the year forbad any farther naval •peiatioDs, fo- QoudcQy hadtocombat wkhan^wfpecics * £xc<^1 tbai no mam vnr mPK itknti 4c ippbub sf bit tmiuryniea, as bo one ew 'ook greater patai le (ciiuifC ti. Hie, fcticF, vhich ii publiOicil at length in the anailt of qucta Aunt, tu •aaioiu anaffeflcd accouni of ihii celcknted aflion. It ti truW chi- ' nAeriSic of kit Boble (pim, and coniiar)' loitic iirfiniMiioni of fomc ' atyb^M, while ke fpcAi witii ail btcoaiin^ madcfly aid rral rtgm «thuaMhMlii(r«grfata Diarcis.ihc a&jftii ^ b< viflitd. he at ibc r^nt tine bcflews ibofc yJk encemiuat aa ijic biha,vi*iu of ilic ba«< Cc CccK^ Roeke, fan conmandcr-in-cbjefi vbich even thi vrtctirMc foiril of party calumnjr h»s hatdljr dared lo witbuld. — CMpbelk oUenei, " Sir ClouJcfly %o«el, wrih tie vui' of the £Dgl)(li%ei, iii(rew)y efctpcil being rnriouoded by ikefiso«b; bM- (■ George Rooke perceiving their deERS bo« down iimnq ^i^i fly ttL |m')^IUiicc ; which fenronaSl^ fkiccnur Sl.ovcll rctuinrd in ibc latttt Cii ill tb« cngngenieni, when feveral fliipi of the admiial'x divilioa ing Smtti out of , the bnr for want of ammunition he very eallaritly tame im ia ihsir lii. Ai to taking to himfelf the nicTit of bcaiins tWFrtiih fleet it waa not inbii naititei he knew his pwa merit, aiij' lu>dKkar).Kkddtd>auctab9tlu* ^ - ^ - ■ ' ^ •( L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: HAVAUOP.EICESS 07 GJtIAT BKtTAIM. SJt .of antaffinnQrthe JAfoleiiceaDdc^)rieooftbePortDf(|i:&. This ^imijt^ oiigic^cd in fosic io^wcr condufi oi oq* of tbe youtifier princei of- the ro^al umily; bu.t tiy &(' Qoudedy's finuncfs and magiuiumily dw matter WM qutdltlY-termiaatol, %ai vith the utmoft ec^t b-cip«raitM^ » ftu w «» itt- his power* witbthedukeuf S%v of his age*. There • " pIyInotlli^ Oaobet aB. Her BajcSy*! ,(bip dw Si)iA«in cfiiWluidcd by capnia HoGdr <* c«nc into our Ibwid, lad buh *•. band ihc body ot Gr CJoudtflcy Sbovsl^ which wu lalun Bf aador tberocluofSi. lAuy't." ' " Whitetell* OecQaibcT 91. On dK ts4iaftMKwai peripnKi i(m| iDiferqeat of fii ClouJaOy Sh»vcllt who wu uni^tnnucb loft ta ibe ASbci^wn «n U« lock* callai ih* flifikop u»d Cbr)», off SoiUjV bf the asd of Ofloher Ufi> an*] bi( b^y lakea up uadar ^ rocki m S^ M«ir's. He wat, (t tbe ttnw of hii (ImU), nw-MinirRJaf Gmm- ]Qrit«ui, aad admiral aaii caiaBiM)4ci>wv^tuif of bei iHbfly'*-flacv •^ of iba council iif bu rowal bigbacb pijim Gmfh* m D«Diav]ca V iqw°'*>'B>*'V wuJgwbicliUwHhopaiMciloailMMHlikf JuMpro £t)diiwhi»^aib,OMofd|Bi.l(i«rbwllMr(ortheTriulyUoa(e«f9apl- {itM)Mroad,anil.(Mtf9f «h«apH«n«i>Df ibc r^malhofnlal fi»ilM*i»b( lcnanc« oFased aaddirablcdbMicn H Graenwicb. H* WMMMdUn^ feUv* th^tQaMMwith aouoJnrbl.Mpuutirat ind ibrougli daftwhole cpoduti oC bi> life wu booouce4 i«r • ccinin peodfar fnakMb snA. hoMf^ of bdhvittw* l^bc boAy* vfKr haKiM Ui* ta fl«M Tim inwgr ^^ vu co(iveyed> at ihc qucen'a ex^oce, bom hi* laK ^wcllim- . ,„.,,,.,., Google » trVES AND CHARACTERS OF There is a particular circumftanct attending Ms death, for which we are indebted to the right honounitle lord Romney, his grandfon ; and being hitherto known to very few peribns only, is, confequently, fo much the more' interefting. The admiral was not drowned ; but, after having reached the fliore in fafety, was according to Ate • confemon of an ancient woman, by her treacherouflyajid inhumanly murdered. This atrocious a£l fhe, many years afterwards, when on her death bed, revealed to the mintfler of the parifti who attended her; declaring (he could not die in peace till fhe had made this confeuion. She aeknowleged having been led to commit this horrid deed for the falce of plunder ; and that Ore then had in her ' Mffefllon,^ among other things, an emerald ring, which ihe had been afraid to fell, \eik it fhotild lead to a (fifco- ¥ery. This ring, which was then delivered to the mini- ' fter, was by him given to James, carl of Berkeley, (in pof. ' feflion of whofe family it now remains) at his particular yei]tieD, fir Cloudefly Shovell and himfelf having lived on ^ terms of the moil intimate friendship. The manner of hit death, as well as ihedifcovcry of the ring, is related Afferently by Campbell and others; but from the channel, thiough which the communication was made, we have every rc^fon to conclude this account is undoubtedly mod authentic *. To hmift in Seho-rquire, to the Abbey of WcAminfter, where it w'ai iolerTerf with ill the pcxrp ind munificence fuinble to fo nonrnfuV *» «ecaS«n, tftd her mijcAy'i high rtpid t it' cootiini mtny judrcioni obfe'rvattoni on hii ch*r*8er, and ti the book ' frDB)whtchiliiabrfdEPdiibeeoTneciceri]ing(circe,iicinBot beiboagbl iaiproper in ui lo in fen it. The fentencea printed in itaticraSbrd ut- tsfoTination we do not el(ewhm meet with ; j-ei while ftmily iradiiion and the very refpcdtbte tcAimony of Campbell and otber^ induce t» on one hand to difcrcdil • pari of ihli account, we cannot bclp oMerving on the other, Ihii it Carrie* with it fucbin a^arance; of an I hem icily ai forhidi ui lodcfpife it toully. <" Aaioiheidmiril, bewwbam, in 1 650, in thecoun^ofNtirblk,- (if m ancient famfly, ehicflv ronfiderablc for loyally and plain down-' riehi honeftyi wbkh were ihcTcfoic nalunt and hcitdinw]! lofirChM)-' LiiuiiizcduyGoogli: HAVAL -Of nCEIS OF GRBAT BKITAtH. : 39 To delioeatB the thxn&er of this brave, anif, oiiljr in hu - 4rB,y ; lur vwi A meei^JeraUtJir rjlale, (boub lint wu lefleneil fcjr their faiibful >Jbcrcncc to kinj^CbaHei I. of cTcr blclled mcmoqr. Movcver the good old ceiulewoaiui, ur C.'i moihcr, beilu fUl iJive, cDJoyi no cgntrinpublc compclency, uiui Aai ittn Im^Jmiltfd _Jir many nart,frig kerafaaitjaaidaxa/un l« dl^iagm/k iia- Jflfm battit; and/o itcame ranarkaiitjor vakur, at it kid ittH i^»t fir virtuau and made^ ieporlmfit- " HiipartHlikavingcarrfiUfytrainidkrmvptii/i'cAltaTHMgattkeir tamhy Jciiiii afforded, jir Ckriflopker fackfyfao! tkatlktrt mu ajtmrn- i Hfktr itga» tt rttfi, and wai aftcHnrdi conpletcd by (the never- encNigb to b< commeDcted} fir John Narbocough, who, upon the ««• C'encc of Sbovel'i eniiWDi counge, cooduS, and fweei lemper, 1 advanced bim frotn one poB to anwher, until be bccuna wte of ibe' nofl confidenble-iaptaiiii in tbe fiiet. ^ " 8i( Jobn, wbo wa* aot only Tcry direetning of men^t aWKiiet ud merita, but alfo veiy juA and bountiful ia trwirding of ibMi, , bwiBg tbcD • gresi and velUdeCerred intenfl witb the court, recow- neoded, with areit carrKQiiefl to the duke of York, then lord high -•datinl of En^and, and to king Charlci the Second, captdii-ShoMl, ai'aperW that well niNJcrilood nfbercin ihc tnic honour Sod iNiarWl of bu kiueand couoiry conGIled, and ai a man that would bearalf - tad ftudilT eudoaToui to promote ir. . Tbefe two royal broihen (whom their grcatcfkeoemieimuD own to bivc been exceUent jiM^i of fea officers} advanced him to pofla of'greal honour and tmft, vhereof be ai way t retained a Juft and gntcfi>rfenfe. But though be grenly loved king Jamei'i peifon, yet be had an equal avcrlioo to bia religion, fo (bat being aOuaMd by thediOatei of^ii eoalciancA, hU gratitude and loyalty to his royal miOcr and bene^6tor, could never move him beyond Ihit fuperior duty wbich be owed to the eflibltlhed religion and Uwi of hii country ^ for ibii reafon onlv he wu previilfd upon tojhikt in witb (he intereft of king William foon after hii ad- • vaocement to the throne: and tliat prince wai fo wife as to hanonr • him with img/tlia'd; n writ as to reward and encourage bti nicriu with Elacn of great irulT and proRr, which her prefcn'i majrAf (whom OM mg prtferve) did, br the fame rcafoni, not only continue )iui in- «." cretft l;,u,i,;™u,G0Q^Ii: -30 UTES JIVD CRA»AenlItt«f' JU•'lkBt|i*» usfqrtUHMe'tiuiiv'saaU be:uAdo& eveo airete .Ms gallantiY, prudence and experience recorded itt no other V3y -than in.tbe f o r e g oi n g ve^ ibeft> «ndt ferry sre ttVCTeind nnltiply to %i«iv)]il« fa« lived; tna kAciVirdi Trairoirrtd ' Ml H!iepy with » moiIg •ftympcm fetnnl rilsA nrrfitjiti iiad iefbfe. 1%e gMkt flonun iBd pitfrtmnn (to wtrfch he irtH^cf were bfii the JMlti CT OfJiof hwpMier «K(»ii»i)d viTiuoi ani yet he » hniLiftii* oafjr troided ihefe a&dkU npuhir>]>plm(i:, trOthtngr^at tbcAi fbt ihdeed hn h8 and htgMft pTOmOaaa upon eirth «n in a nsniAr Artfcd npiM hfn i ■■«) it wtt ti6t without it1u£laii(X thnbt'a^rept^il nScr, wbnfaer confidered n ■ ntcM. tn bitflHnd, or « imner of a feiHy-, fodltlitii r«m>tli:«at)F hrn.Kw men lived «nn«bdne0,br dMnmreUniented. Hii ftti£t aitentimi tt> the tlticipliiie «f tbeii;T> *ke, inM ininft hhn, ttnone the fnitKn, ichirge of aoltcrij k litlte (Merm ; ai, it ii atmFer&Ily admitted, no man ever poBtfled « norehimaM heart; Md tfc foUAwiog Ictteri tford n t Rry rdGciau Eauad of a Icttei t« Mr. VcmoB. - - " SWihre, u tbe Down, i7MqF lAjy. A migoifcent manument has betn «ttSed to hh MMwrr t* WcSniafter-tbtoy, beiriiic tbc following tBfcrifKtoii : m tafpnpoMi rmvbccnliircd It^'Ur. Addifoquul wiib t(eat,1ljflice, ■i-acqMinthig ■uonlvwiih (he modf of hii tkith, initFad orcelebrauri^ihem*nf i«> . HU-kiWaSMBi he bkd -performed in the fervicc of Iu4 rouMif. ' SirCi-OUDasLY Shove tt, knijfci, Rcir-ftdmird df Great Britain, And *dmttal ind cbcM UDiIer thia monumeitt. Which bit royal raidrefi bai caufed to be ereScd To comineiii orate Hii Head/ loyalty and eairaocdiaary virtoei. appear L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: '33 lives AN&CHAKACTEM OF appear to have Jitd any other commifSoa till thie Wh of September i688, when he was made captain of tbe Charles and Henry firefhip. In this command he was unfortu- □ately drowned at Plymouth on W-. ever) wtdi the greateft bravery., Blit the Anne having i^liall her.mafts, ant) being atfo much damaged in hef hsU, Was forced on Oior«^ in Rye Bay thfe da^ aftei; the .adion. ' The French admiral (ent two firefhips to bunl htr, boK^^nTyrfelpreventettthis t»ltoFth«;dirgTad8 by voluntarily feitinj^fite to her himfelf. ■ ■ So linlc'diid hit repliiation fufier by thi& misfortiitKi that hc^wos.flion afterwards appohited to the OHbryj a fecpml' Tatilof ninety gbns, afe a kind of palliative to the chaErM, tvny ^ilUnt butn, however Ddbly he may have fuliniea hbidutyj muft feil at fuch an'event. He had ample ft- tisfadlob of the anetny at ^biittle of La Hi^i whert -h»wa» prefent and Warmly eng ag e d . Hedted in Inmdotl'' on the oth of December followingj' hafiAg till Acs K- taHied ^hfejJtoAiYhand Bf flic. Offo^. ■ WHRTON.'J, hn,— was,_in 1673; apppintefj fccona^ liujtciiaiit bf the Fii^faic,, ^a^ fixm aftertvarda of ibitr. .^vic9« ^n the 2otii.«f. O&ober 1677, he was ^ro- ■ bioted; by fir Joha Naiborou^^ to the ctmiBand of tb« ' DVK Tree piriit; L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: ttVU AHV ^ftJOJuCVUiS QP 1678* Arthur, Rf>bert,^was tnsde coinHiaiKler of tlI^^ rrevcnter floop on the 30th of Jaouary 1678. C^ thr 4th of February following lie was removed into the Rieh-- niond yacht. He cantinunito command this veffd vaaf yaare i and had no other conrniiffion tiU the ' 30th 'of' AuguU ibiS, when he vn& appomted capilio of th». GucrBfcy. His nunc does not occur in the fervtce after the revoluiion, although he it known to have oa]ifflanded> a Ihipr or ftiipa, of the line during the reigif of king 'William/ He was living, but unemployed,- in F699. - He is faid to have died at BarbadMs,- but at what pam-^ culardme is oot known, AIRE, James, — waa aapointed jcaptaih of the Dept- - ford ketch on the oSth of May 1678. He was mnclr' cllecmed for his Ikill and fupBofed knowledge at a pilot ^ and this opinion vafortuBateiy proved his ruiii. When ihe duke of York, afterwards kin? James the Second,- to Scotland in the vmi »6Say ae to by Tea, and a fmall fquadron- ■vtai ' nim- He hknfclf embarlced on' board- tke Gloucefter. by Tea, and a fmall fquadron- vta* onkfed to attend* 1. He hknfclf embarlced on' board- tke Gloucefter. Of the lefs af this Ihip a particular ao:ount hat been al->' n»dy given in the lives of fir John Bcrrv and captaio" fiunmaA*i but we Ihall fubjoin the following euniu,re<-. h'tive to captain Aire, froqi the duke af York's Mcmeir* written by nimleif t. Aire was difmifled' the- lervtee. ■ " ""' duke we n ihe GtowfeSei (nnMt wit^ lh«N%)i tbtf- tf^fUirukicrt 01 trvwhcry of c*]>Uili Aijrrcl, tbe pilots whowu aftcr- wlrdi tried and eondeitliied fbr it, wu in great ivgcr oribipwreck. A)>re'« ititemibn wai 10 follow die collier^ mj; Niwiit ihe caitk and land btakii bui. ihecommiDdertweicagainl it Kut erdnM-lMSR* IMO ow u> (cft ibtnkMig-i^ clear tbci|);4)(*,'l|ut be flill pwiTUItd w Ack, fi'ncying he-^adiicnc enough to go wtfliia the tMolu.'ai laft^ tare wtt given him, when tbe conmiDden thought ifacmrdvei far*' ciKHUb out It Tea to go beyond thtn all. But tbejt were deceiMdj; li>T, looaa&cr, thfrflnpArtidLOQ the LutosrandOn^ sear YwBOUlf- fMdt." . ALLEK, L„u,i,;™u,Coo^Ii: VAvii Officers of grkat bki'taih. 35' ^ Allen, Thom^,— ^s, &s ip fuppoAii by Co^^t thrf only foil of admiral fir Thomas AUca. He nrft erftCTcd into ibe navy, in 1673, ^ lieutenant of the PrinceV xt^thif ti^ic the flag-fhip of the brave fir Edward Spragge." Afytf ^ death of that great commander Ke was ukenj in the jatne year, by pnfice Rupet^t to be his. liqutenaot In the Sovereign. On the a6ch of .Maich 16781 he #as ftro^ motcd to the commait^ of the Ruby. On the 151)1 of Apiil 1670, bq failed for Bilboa. He reiurned front ihence In the iolIoWing month; an^jn June failed forthd StreigKts with a fleet of merchant Ibipt under JiiS convoy f ?' nd returned from thence alone in t&t RipAth of Atiguft/ n the month of March 1680, hewas fcntts LiniOD.witli the FortiJguefe AmJiafladpr ; and ii>. June foIlpwin^.failed >vith a reinforcement of troops for T^a^or.. On thtf £th of November 1^6^, lie was remcVed lotb the Quaked. ketch ; frbm which time we meet with oothing relativd to him till after the revolution: foon after which he com- manded the Kingfilher. He died on the 3d of M*f 1690, in the Hope. > ,1 . AYLMER, Matthew, Lord>-:Wfts the iecohd fon oS fir Chriftiyher Aylmer, (^, Balrath, in the count^ of Meath iit Ireland. At his firil entrance iftto life he wat employed to raife, a txxly of foldier^, in (he prQvipcfa, of Mujider, for the fervice and defence of the flatps of Hol^, Una, againll Louis the Fourteenth. At th* cbnClulion of the war, the forces being difbai^ded, Mr< Aylmer btcadtt^ E'age to the celebrated duke of Bqckingf^tm, who faUHog im to' r«a, in 1678 he Was made lieutenant of .the Cbarles galley; and was, on.theoth of January i678.^<^rosio(M to be commander of the Chatham Hoop. . On the t6th of November 1 679, he was removed 10 the Dai? Tie* pri«e ( a'nd on the 5th of May fallowing into the.Caflle firefhip. On the iyih o^ Jujy he was piad^. colnmander of the Swan, and fent tb' Tangier, ^p the loth of Januw? ihSi'Z, he was removed into the Tyger prize^ anid f?m. home with the articles of peace concluded between admtr^ Herbert and the Algcrines. On the zid of June i^Sj,' he was appointed to the Mediterranean ; oA the' 27th Szotember Jbllowii^ to the Charles galley j on the ift of Oaobcr 1688, he wa^ malde captaiA of the Swallow; tibd on thi 22d of December of the Mary. While he C a iob-.' DolizodbyGoOgle 3d LIVES AND CHAIACTBIS OF commanded the Swallow, he captured oq^. of tb^ttllelf belonging to the prince of Oracige'a fleet. She had oa board four companies of foot hetonging to colonel Ba* kington's regiment^ and was certiunly the mod confc- D,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: HAVAL OFFICERS OP GREAT BRITAIN. %% Tvly in thb following year'hew^s proniotflil ^ ba vice-aamiral of the blue: in Hiax flatioii m coptinlied. (4 fciVc during the remainder of the war. He w;|S fent fp the Mediterranean the fame year with admiral RufT^, %&0 beinz taken ill of a flux at Alicant, the chi^ COHk- TCiiaA of the fleet devolved on the vice-admiral. But tfap French ftudioufly avoiding an action, after the fcvetlP challtfemeilt they had expeiiencetl af 1^3. Ht^oe, we hxif nothing Oiemdrable to record, nor is this obf^rvatiDn to be connned merely to admiral Aylmcr^bu^ extended alfp tomanyofhiscotemporstry commanders, to whom vcejur 91 the fame time atTuied, to the ad of fignaliiing/thtm- felves noihiilg was ever wanting but the opportuAt^ To relate ruchparticuWs as we have been able to ttilkoL In the month of May 1696, he commanded the fq(i«droii which convoyed king William to Holland, that dk embarking with the admiral on board the. Elig Jminediately on his return Aylmcr failed to the w^war^ to join the Channel fleet under fir Geoi^e Rooke: an^ ■when it returned into port for the winter, Aylmez agra failed for Holland to convoy the king back to Eof^anb In 1679 he was appoint'etj commander of k fm^U f^iwArte fent to cruife oft tnc coad of France^ dll the peace, of Ryfwib was fiilly concluded. In i6g8 he was proiqot^ to be vice-adtniial (^ the fed and tiofflmander-in-cfiief of the fquadron on the mediterranean fervice. He hoifted liis flag on board tKe Boyne oil the 18th of Au^ifl, «b4 failed from Spithead on the loth of SeptemlKT followtnrt Coatrary winds and fiotitny #eathv much re^ariled )ui piomfs, fo that he did nof arti^ at Cadiz till th^ i&A of Ol%>bcr. He wintered in that port, and did HQtiaM frofh thence tilt the moiU^pf .fnarcn ibllowing, wbctt hy repaired to Alsierst. Th« E*ey reofeived hrrfi -With tRI ^cmelt cordiality, paid hibl.tlte h?gbe{t honours, aitf <| He WW « ibe 1^ luffe ap^tlt«d Ooe'gC Ac' t^ » «oii t lpjt Sooeri of the owy. '.' -m \ 'Admiral Mntt mK'<«m ima ibe' HUltehMnn (Itlikipaliy. A coDfiraitben«*(lriWilbd4'ftKCK>d»of Tonii, TriedK, nd Algicni N» twice of ihkatcaMAnccii ukn b; ntyclilwV mVil firSfarnu tbin Lcdiard, whicli ii ran;nitMlBa'r*ftnlii}ify. -The Irifii PMn^ confound* ihii coiiuun4 wiib U« foiw oac, nntlci itainl, ilullel, 'ia'MwIc fev. Cj gccording L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: jl IIVES AND CHAEACTEJtJ Of 'according to the Turkish cuHom of making prefeot* tq ■trtiofc wiBi whioiii they are in friendfhip, fent fomc 6iw ^arbarytiorfes to kii^ Wfltiaiu. This part of his m!& flan being hajrpilT fulfilled, the ^dmiral repaired to futiiSf WfacK he was rcceiftif. if pofGble, wjth ftjll greater hof iKMirs ; and was' equally happy in his negotiation. Thp Ciine fticcefs attended )iitn at Tripoli. Ifavjng thus ful- lilletl the chief opjeS of the expedition, he vifite^ Leghorn, Genoa, and Alicant^ at all which places he was 'teceived With' th^ highefl refped. ^e returned to Cadiz on the 2 1 ft of Rcpternber, an^ arrived off Plymouth ob -the I7(ii of the following month. ' In the year 1699, on the reOgnatipn of the earl of Orford, adtnirat Aylmer quitted the fcrvice op apcoiint fas it it faid) of Mr. Churchill, who tiafl ^Ifo ift'itei fome ^ars h^tore, being appointed ^ cpiumiliioner of the ad^ onindty. In the 'year lypi fjc was made governor of Dcal^^ftle; and h^ing in every other refpedltcontinuea tolive fecluded from public life till after the death of ftiince George of Denmark, and the conffquent rctire-r ment of admiral Churchill, he was, on the'i2th of No- - TCinber 1 709, appointed admiral and commandci-j n-chief «f the fleet. . - 1 . . ' * We have the follpwioE account in a Icilcr from Lcghotii, dtui -■ ■ ■ ■, - J.rc.B.N.S. 1699. ' *' Bjr I Taitine, y/Wh airivcd here two dayi ago From Tunii, wf ' ■ n teeount that a fquadron of Engiifh men of yrir, under \bf and of admit) Aylmer, came to ah anchor in that b»in the be* I of the la|) momh. The Bejr of Tudi'waa tfacn Jn the country t . xiDi^ be, beard of their arrival he came toTunitand veot «a t)Mrd the Boyhf, where Ke^n^ bit atKodanis were nobly eDMhakiedi andafireatBikny gJmilijedby ihemenoF war. Tbe Bey waif aireaml^ fitiitd, and gave adiniral Ayfme'r (everal Turki(b hprlei, and etber Brereail Ip tho fck of tbe Cngllu commanden and otherai And u a MM' '00 {kmoiift ration of hli icfpcd and Tcneration for hii iniidly of bieai ilMtatn andliii afFcaion to the Enj^liffi nation, he hai talen of alMApar ceo«i tbcEngiifli paid tofbre, for tbe merchandize! ibeyim- Vft" ^iti *9i. gut fiby CbriAifa (btvea ibeir liborty^, feMtal oS WBom are come biiber in thcTartane that brought |bii il^wa, tbe reft nnivniEU db bpaad tbe Cntlifli own of iHf. itDa' Ae 90th of die Jt& motttb admiral Aylmer Jailed out of TooU baf h* Tripoli.'"' i Zxexfi that bo fcrvcd aa atprefentaiW* i« {JaflMntent ftfr Qorer. ^urina (i)c ctticf part Qf^uKD Ana^ reign. '. : ' ■'■ '■■-■■ ■■■-■-■■ ■ ^5 L;,u,i,;.du,GoO^Ic ^ATAL OVPICIItS or QKEAT BS^TAIK. 39 In the month of July following, having convoyed fevc- fti of our outward-Ihiund fleets clear of the home cnrifcrs, heieH in with a fmall French convoy bnund for Marti- nico and Newfoundlvi^ But notwitManding hs iirime- - (liately ordered three of his bcft (ailing Ihips to chacs ^bead, and foUawcd tbem with the reft of hifl forte, h*- «ras uiifanmute enough, through the h^^ nefe of the ■. vieatbcr, to Jbe able to fccure only one merchant-m^.Q {taken by the Aflurance) and the Supcrhe of fifn'-fix '. Sins| wKfh ftroct, after an hqiir's a£lion, to the Kentc , e renjaja^r of the enemy's fhips, confitling of thirteen lail of mercJunt-inea rikI the Uoncoid frigate of thirty suns efcapine. He was fuccccded the following year by Sr John LeaKe, tp whom he himfelf had been IticcefTor ; and was TK4 a^jp ajip^ieij ti) ^ay comm^iMJ during th« reign of ^ueen t'^iB^. . Soon ut|r ihe aacefiioq of king George the Firlt he msfagdnmade admiral and commander-in-chief of the fltct, ai)d very foon after appointed governor of Green? yi^ch hofpilal, ranger of thepurk, and keeper of his majcr . fty'spalacf Btthatpl^e. The war, however, which was ■ f xpected to break out at that timcj gave way topeaceable Cftncils, and the rebellion in ScotUpd ' was toiatly cruftea. In December 1716, he conimgnded the fleet ' which convoyed his m^cdy back from H^M-tnd ; and 011 the 17th' of April 1717, was made commiirioner of the adeuralty^ in which pod he did not long continue. He quitted It OH the 19th of March in the CTifuing y ear^ 1517-18'. Being anpointeft rear-adm(ral of Great Britain , very foon ^ex,' May the ift, 1718, he was created an [ Irjih baron by. tbe ttile of lord Aylmer i but did not lon^. enjoy thofe honours, as be died on the 18th day of Aiiguff |^20t| leaving behind h^ a n»me wtuch, though it may *■'■■■' nc^ . ■ ■! I ■■ V - •■•'•• — ' — ' ■ "" ' ' . r^—'^'^t 'VJ k': * On ibe ^h of November 1714. ■t Tiie bibwinit Kcouiit i^ leleAed from Arehdak'i P^n^ of |n|tM)4, «iui i| iiibrred'if containing miny iriiercAing pariicolin ^hkhliave noihiibi'rlooccuTrcilininy'aihcr plMc, Spi^eof ibcm, brc bMB •liM^r niaicd'ifiibe life joR given. ' " Matthew, ihefbeoad Ton ^lirChriHophcTAtylmer.oFBilntb,' utile leigQ af Cb vie* *'>' ^'ood, vm emptaytd ig liile foldienia Jt^oBcr, 10 be liaafporied to HolUnd, fot ibe fcrvicc of ibc lUiea ■UUM the f (CDClk Iq dlii bufiaelt be expcajed above 400-^ of hit. ^ ■ ~ ■■ ■ (i* "«)[«> L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: j^ \\V%t AHD CHAIACTUS 0» Itot \tft fd cnitnently diftingulfhed for fplendid cxploiti ai ttiM of fome of his cotemporaiics, may at teaft be &id to have pafTed through die molt troublefbme days, (broiigh tfae ^ery f>rckal of pany, anfl clampurs of faAlOfl, without ineiitipg reproach qi incurring objpquy. BLAGG> — ■ ■' {. • - V. ' . ' " ,1 -" ■.., ' ' J ^ ■I' "/ -- , ■ v. " ■, ' " ■■:■■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ ' '■ ^ ■. awri foriune But, ■ricr he had completed hit number, feterti mif- fortunei happcnipg which ciufed ihem ill to nilcirrf, b« applied n Ibii brotbei, yr Geiald, to aQH) hia with money in ruGng mote mqn, yiilioai whiih ^i« credit beyond fci, uid hit foitune were likely to bt •Mblutcly loftii Sit Gerald having fome limebcrorepcrfe&edBbond, fo^r the pvf.ntfTit of tool- )o hiQ, in full difehirge of lbs remainder of hi) poriioo leCt bv bit father upon tiw aDatc, eonrented to adnitrt tbatTvin. 11)4 in a fbott time procurM iSomen, whom, bjr kii bro* tbCrMaiibewisdiieflion.hecloaihcd and maintained for ihrMmootht. J^.t". _, _r-S 1 J _.!.; a i.ii i ! M'lbe cxpcncf ^f aMve (jol and aihit rraiieft, laidomsool mora iirourcba^tiff > ftip, named the Phitip of Whifchaven, for their paC i> Holbnd. Tfaefe Coreei, at (Be tonctnfion of the war, being ' ^i^°i , . anded, Mr AjtIwct became a paj;fc to tbedokf of Buekinghaa, ivbo (ent )um to fea^ whete h« ii^proved fc weU,H to bo advanced to ' the command of a Cbip i^n the rcigD of Jamei the Second ; and, after ^ enghgeiqeiii of Li Hague, waa eonltitnicd. on the 8ili of ?cbruarj t6gC'3, rear-admirtl oF the red (qaadion, and fent tolbe Medi terra- £«■>, where he. gained a great ^eal of repDaiibii, Jiy (l{i£ ireatiei bt . foocluded at Algieti, Tunic *nd 1>i|Mll. .'*.* He iv^ \ man very bandfome in bit perfoni oCgood imderftiiid* ing, intiefaiigablc in biiRnefi, very iciloui for the libtriiel of IRC pe^ fic, an^Rivde a goodfigmein the partiameiit [wherein he fat,' as one eFtbe traront for the y^i, ijtf Dpver, frOm the year iS^S to bii death} u well a* tn ih£ IfM. ' . Vln i.TOt he wa«inadego*eTn9TafDeilea&bt Sil of pQober - lj09,'conllituted.a lotd commifCmierof the admiralty; and, i/ih o( ifovehifiet rollowiag, madcddniiral and tomnuodcr in-cbicf of her , g vehihet rollowiag, madcddniiral and tomnuodcr in-cbicf of faer , eflv I 6eeti in wlbch he wai fuiceeded, S7tl) lanuarr 1710, by Er in Leake On the acceflron of iitng Geoige the 7im he iVai ;«in- :^ in that command tpth tS O^o^er iji«i«od in November ipadc governor oF tbe royal boTpital at Greeovicb^ keeper ofhia aw- icfly'j palace there, ^nd ranger of the park. On the i^h of APfi'l . l^'yj fie'wai again 'appointed a comngiSoner of thfadJiii rally, \xA ^h of ^arch reat-admtial of the Beet i in ^hich monib be had a Eient forf^ mtfterfttp of Greenwich liofpitaV for Kfi:; a chiriabW ' jndaiioa- which be very ^ouch piomoted, (ttf (he nlin of difaUcd unrii: and by privy &at, datei at St. Janei^ igtb of' Api^; anti ly, patciii iQ Uay ijiS, wai advanced tatt|e peerage o(Iftl«iid by tb«' (JtleoflordA^lmetafSalfath. "^ ■- ' '**. A/icr (bii advancement be wai,«ppainte4, in 1790, rear adaiii*^ - of preai Brif ain, Itui died on the 18th of Augufl that year; and having; vitik4 Svaib <''%'>■'( of £^Vard ^Ui* ^uondoD, eli; had iffne b/ '■■ ■■■■■■■■■ * ■ ■-. - ' '■■ ■■■■ ' ■ ' fce% DiQiiizcdDyGoo^It: MAVAL OFFICKKS OF QKtAT BRITAIH. 4c BLAGG, or BLAGUE, William,— was appwntrf fbcond Ufnitenuitof the Monmouth in 1673. He had na oiher commilEon till the i6th of Oaober 1677, at which time fir John Narborough, cunmander-in^hief in tfaf Mediterranenn, took him under hisproteSion, andi^- pointcd him firft lieutenant of the P^mouth, ^r John'i . fla^ (bijp. He wxt promotfd by the fame worthy patron to the command c^ uie Orange-tree frigate on the 2ad of ' Febniaiy 1678. Vice-admlral Herbert removed him, on ■ the latn of April 1679, iiito the Sapphire; froiii whic|i ihip he wa^ again removed, on ^ 3d of May following )>y fit John Narborough, into the Phoenix. He wac fe^-commiflioned to the fame veRel on the 13th of Augull 1679!. We find ' tins fliip em[}Ioyed piincipally m a fntifer iii the Channel ; and that captain filagg was fent to Tangier, with a rai|iforcemem of trrwpi, in the mon^ of }une t66o } aed, ki the month of November following^ with a convoyfar the Canaries. We have not been able to karn any other pjrticulars relative to him. BOTHAM, William, — was appointed lieutenant o{ the St. George in 1673. ' On the 23d of February 1675, he was made fecond lieutenant of the Rcferve; and, on ' the 5th of November 1677, firft lieutenant of the Rupen. ' On th£ lathof April 1678, he was promoted to the com* martd of the RoetAtck ^ and in 1680 was removed into th« Ann yacht. On t^e od of May i68a, he was appointed to the Pearl fri^te ; on the 18th of April 1683, to the CwngeTree; and on the 27th of April 1687, was a fecond time made commander of the Fear}. After the fcvolulinn had taken place he was cordially received and employed t^ king William, who promoted him to the Re.' ftoration, a third rate of feventy guns : he (;ommandect ' this Ihip at the battle ofF Beachy head^ where i^ unforta- nately was-kilted ; effablilhiiig, by his death, that reputa- tion nt had. when living, always appeared- zealous to ac- quire. BROOME, Samuel,— was appointed lieutenant of the ^eahnd. He was not promoted to the rank of com* kr, who died of.-aB apoplcxj' in November 171a, two diu^tcn, £iiubeth, iod Lucy (ie>iric4 ip riugb ForicKcac,' of Filln' in Jjievon- Ubire, £tCqi by vhont ihe^aij Maubew, lord Fiuicfcu^, of CaRlc-hill | ^ died at' £luiii'|toa, iq 1^ CDitniy of GlouceOcr, s^tii Feb. ijpj) , ■ w , . nander ■ L,-,u,i,.™u,Cooglc 4p LIVES AND CKAtACTK^t OF ifiander til] the yen 1678, when he was made captatn of ihe Emfworth Itoop. He was removed by fir John Narr horoiig^ into the Chatham douUc Qaop on the 5^1 of Majr 073- CHURCHILL. George,^was the third Ton of flr Windan Churchill, of Wooton BaflTct, in the county of Wilts, knight, ;uid ^tjzabeth ht> wife, daughter of lir Wiliiam Dralce, of AOi, in the county of Devon, bart. John Churchill, afterwards th^ wdl-tnown duke of larlborough, being his eldcft brother. ' The family of the Churehills is of very great antiquityi Bod is defcpnded froip Gioo de Leon, who Uved before the time of the cpAqiisft, and was the head of the very ilUiftrion^ family of I>on in France. Wandril dc Leon, the younger fon o^ Giuo, had two children, Racoulde Courcil, and Rog« de Couicll ; which lall attended Williaoii iurnamett . tlie Conqueror, to England; and, ai appears by the Doomfday book, had a large eflate, in land,' graoted hiof by that monarch. The grandfon of Koget de Courcit was a fir Barlholcmew de Curricbcl, Cheuchill, or Churchill, wjio was a perfon in high tnilt and favour under king Stephen, who made him governor of the calUe of frilton His defcpndant, Oiho de Churchill, left three Tons, the ypunger of which, named William, was the grandfathes ' of a Charles Churchiil, whofe fleady attachmept to the houfe of York induced king Edward tjie fourth to ibte- rtjlhimfclf fpfarin hiswelfarp, as (ogive him in marriage the daugliter and hcirefs of a lir William Wildwyde, 4 ' perfon over whom the king had conliderahle influence, and from whom the family of the Churchill's received 4 - very confiderable acceflion of property. Thotnas Churchill, of Wildwyde, fan of the beforsT vientioned Charles, married one of the daughters and cq-hcirefTcs of Tyllc, of Tylle-houfe, in the county of Devon ; and his Immediate defcendant, William Churchill, left three fons. from whom fprong three dji^reot branches of this illuftrious family, ftpgcr, fhe {ecomi fori, married the hcirefs of Peverell, pf Bradford; aiid by hcV had ilTue Mather Churchill, father bf Jafpcr CiiurchiU, great-grandfather of fir John Ghurchilli knt. lotdof Chtir(.hill, in t^e county of Mmerftt, who dyin^ ^ithoDt ilTue, bis f^cond brother, who "wai alCi mmct^ John. .,.L.„, Google VAVAL OtFICEKS OF GXIAT SKITAin. 43 John, became the reprefentative of this branch of the family , 9i^d (having married Mary, daughter and co>- tieirefs of lir Henry Winlbn, of SjudiOon in the county of Gioucefter) was the father of fir Winllan Chuictiili bcfere mentioned. Such is the heraldic account given of this very ancient ^4 honourable family. George Churchill is faid, br pampbell, to have been born in the year 1652 or 3 : if this be true he mufl have bben made a lieutenant in the fiavy at the very early age (^thirteen, as be was appointed to that Hation, on board the Delph prize, itithe year 16&6. lie was appoipted 2d lieutenant of the York, on the com- pienccmcDf pf the fecond Dutch war,, in 1672 ; and firft ^ I)cutenai}t of the Fairfax in the fbilowing year. On the 36th qf March 1 674, he was removed to tpc fame Itatioa tfa board the Callle fri^e; and experienced a fecond re- t^oval, on th^9ih of March in the following year, on tpard the Swan. On the loth of April 1678, he was promoted to the command of the Dartmouth ; on the I ith of September 1680, he was appointed captain of the I^alcon*; and on the 26th of September 1088, of the Newca^le, Of all thole who had balked in the funfhine of court fa- vour during the two preceding rdgns, none are charK4 with having had ^eater obligations to king James I L than the famtJy of the Churchills. Sut if John Church- hillj, aficTwenis better known as duke of Mariboroughr had been the condaot attendant and mofl confidential ff iend of that fovcreign, who. had on ail occtHons mani- fpflcd th^ mod fincere attachtnent to him, and one of whofe fifft a^ pf royalty was that of creating him a peer, captain George Chiircbtll, if he ever had been patronifea by the fovcr^n, wu certainly fo in a lefs eminent and •' confpicuous degree. Thcfc family obligations, if thejr deCcn'e that napqe, wne infuflicient to enfure his fidelity' tQ his prince? when the welfare. of his ct»intiy appeared to hitpa^at Itake, .Tne motives which influenced thecondudlofthefemea cpuld be propeiiy knows only to ihcmlelves ; thole, v(he> . * In ibe noui of Morenber he balti wiib a coavof fw- tbs pananti, thcr L„u,i,;.du,Goo^Ii: 44 tivtts Ain> cHAiAcTB>s or dirr true or &Ue, whkfa they affeded to hold oat md ptih. Itfh to the world, were certainly the efflux of genuine" pitriotifm. Admitting tham, according to the wiOi of their cnemiei, for z moment, not to have been fo, but ihtf offspring of mercenary and interefled motives urged and impelled by a natural ingratitude, this charge by r>o means &lls on captain Churchill, with the fame weight it docs en bis elder, and more royally-favoured brother. He does BOt appear to. have had any connexion of intimacy, con-' &deace, or private frieodlhip with the monarch, « to have engaged a grcatei jbare of his eftecm than, as a com> mandei, he had a right to ezped ; and, conGdering him V the IttotheT of a »vourite, in a greater degree than he vtally experienced. This fufficiently exculpates htm from 4ie charge of private iogratitode, which has been fuper- addcd, by his enemies, to fweJl the h^now bulk of In* political treachery; fiar fuch ii the violent opnion enter- tMDcd of bis condud hy fonae, on accmnt of his having beeo the fird commander who held out an example of dete£lion to his coUeaguee, by carrying over his Ihip, the NewcaftlCi to the pKince of Orange. He is faid alio to have confef- Jed having framed a deflgn, in conjun£lioa with captsun Aylmer and fbtnc other commanders, to have (eized lord DKutsiDulh, the admiral of the fleet, which was to havff' been carried over in a body. Soon after the revolutioi^' was e5^£ted Churchill was promoted to the command of' the Windfor CaQle, a fecond rate. He ferved in this iitip, at the battle off Bcachy Head, as one of the feconds to the earl of Toirinston*. In that of La Hogue hs commanded the Saint Andrew, a fliip of t^ fame rate as ttie fofmer, and is fatd' by aU hiftonaiis to have dlAin-t gifbed himfelf, in th«t adion, in « manner in ef ety re> ' , ed befitting the charader of the brother of fo gre^ t loan as the earl of Marlborough. Notwithflanding the high cretfo in which bod» his ^lantry, his connexioas, aodhis early attachmvnt to hi* caijfe mud have placed him with king William, he quit- ted the fervice for fome years foon after this event. .IJI n ., Ll , , ' I *- In i6ai be WM appcnnted commodore of t fmilT rquadron fcBt l»cniife'olF the eo*A of Fnncc alccn«idj w(h one nadef lite 00017 sanddf lir Ralpb DeUvaK 4 Mvy L„u,i,;™u,Goo^It: NJIVA& OFFtCBiaOV aWAT MtTAlV. 4i Mwy reafbiu have been affigned, }tf difletent perlonat for this veiy exiraordiDuy ntiremoit : the tnie me U £nJ ■ to have been the appointiwent of Aylmer to be « rear* . adcniral,. who, being a youager officer " than htmrelf, tat little emitted to fuch « protnotton; and GhuiduU not enduring to fcrve as a capuin bmler hia>t tfaooght propet to with^aw from public Hfe tiU the year 1^99^ whem foon after the retiraneot of dMeatl* of.Orfont, he waa appointed a commiflioner for execating the office of loril high ^Imiral, a fiation which he held till thfi a6th of Januaty 170IV vi4en Thomas, earl of Pembtoke and ^ontgomciyi who had been flrft comiciflioneri waKw* pointed, by icii^ William, lord high admiml: 'las death of the- lung, and the cenfequent appointibcnt «C pi.ince George of Denmark as fUccdTor to the srl of Pcmhroke, reltored Mr. Chijicbill to his Hation, thoueli he now held it under a di&rent title, being named* on tn» fljd of May 170a, one of the council to his highnefs a> lord high admiral. Hewas alfo appointed admird of th* ^ue, which was the regular rank m^ would at that tbntf have attaiiKd in the fervice, had he never quittsd it. The reAontion of Churchill to the fcrvice had the fatns cfie&unoaadmiralAyltnerthatthe promotion of the Ixtte^ had bciore produced on the former; they were, in this re- (pe€t, twin Aait which never appeared abdve the political horizon tt^ther. Churchill repaired to Portfmouth iin.> mediately afterwardG t and hoifted his flag oa board tha Triumph' But it is not fuppofed he went to Tea in ti«t capiicity during the year 1702 ; and the more fo, as th(^ Thumph fail^ with fir George Kooke, on the C^diZi expedition, on the 19th of June, carrying rear-admirals Graydon's fli^. He was chofen reprefentnive for the borough of'SainT Albao's in the hrA parliament which met after the acceC*- fion of queen Anne. In the month of May 1703, piiace- George, who on evety pollible occalioa endeavoured to* promote, and ferve admiral Churchill, appointed him- to- fucceed fir George Rookc, whoTe indilpoCtion at thn^ ■inemogibiafteiC t Oa die firince, and the relationfhip he flood in to the queen,' prevented their afpiring to his deflruAion, thn wtr4 compelled to be content •with purfuing a muen more^ humble vi£lim in the peruin of his favourite Churchill. The natural pride of the admiral, of which no fubjea probably ever poflcffed a greater fiiare, heard their com* plaints, which had too much foundation, with neglcdl anrf- fcorn. Injury, encreafed by infult, augmented iht mnabcr of his enemies and raifcd the tone of theft' dif- Eleafure. The favour of the prince,- however, proteS^ im effeftoally, not only againft the clamours of the peo- ple, but from the ill confcquence of many reprerentatione- node to the queen by the houfe of lords, which Were ,**• I.I ■ ; ~— ^ ■ * Ok of tbe council la the lord fiSg^'adiuinl. cxprefl/ DolizodbyGoOgle #aV>L QVFtCERS OF GBBAT BMTAIH. 4f' fepreflvcontrtred to procure his removal ; at length tfa* fleatii o? hiE royal patron effeded that retirement .whkh ib much inferefl had vainly been exerted to compe'. Admiral Churchill quitted public life itoaiedixttij After the deceafc of prince George, and is faid to hava lived entirely at a plezTaut vula, which be had ereded ia Windfor park. |lis purfuit in retirement wis no 1^ retnarkable than the extraordinary florfn of ate that hat always purfued [lis public occupation. Hchadconftnified^ the moll beautiful aviary in Britain, which he hod, art m incredible expence, fjfled witb a tsoft rart aad yaluabls colledion or,oird& I'heler °^ hi> deccafe, he bequeKkod to two friends, witn wftom he had ev^r lived in lheftri£tDft intimacy,' the dfujc'e of Ormondy and the 6arl <^TdfnngtaD. He. never ^as married ; and the reft of his pn^^itjr^ Ivhich Was conrideiable, he left to a natural fsm. He died on the 8th of May 1710, in the. flftf-eigfaiik tear of his age, and was buried with ^leat funeral ponif' In Weftmiii Xo A'nimi vigore et forlitodiiM pBenvi^ Quo ducem Anolum 4Kait Hdi lb cudca nge, l„u„,z™b,Coo^Ic . || llVtS AW CRAIACTKU or niCUr of Chu^httl miy he comprircd in I venr feir fnudik His bravery no man cotild doubt ; his ability in the line of hit profeflinii wA always at ^eaft equal to t&e ■biticular ftrvice in which iit waH engaged ; but t'< lay that ' n ii6t to bellnw on it anv great encomium, as he never ataiined any confti^liential command. Confiderine hii^ i>a iftatefnun it ti certainly unfair to charge hinifolelr with havii^ caufed, by hit oblliaacy or neg]c£l, thde inikfoi^tHts which befei the comthcrcc of England^ dtir^ fngtho time he held an inferior part in its naval adininl- ftnUioni tJbtHi the whole/ the clamour raifed (o le- BeaMdhf againft him appeare to have been (iggcftpd and . KAered principally by' tiis own pridtf, which urged him to tmtt with ft very ilnwariiuitable contempt, all inen whom lie tbfn^f of inferior rank to himrelf. He was, moie^ ovcr> eitdued with an extraordinary degree of fclf-fuflici' •bey which cnifed him tb efltmatc his own abilitws at 4 'hipKr price thtti his: cotemporaries appeared witlii^ to tfii. i ii i i ' '• . - ■ - - ' ■ — I. , f « ^uilnnio Inentoriun jodice, VDH%catniiri(Iatili AOUiRALLiJEcobllifuuil , Rurmariliniu, qntrnin efit (Krliiffimgi, Ctuirit ^tn m onuTit. Sub fieltciniiDodcinain Anna iwperlo Inftiuiato iwrnm bcllo conin Gallo.I^ InfefiHBniat^onriBiiiTANNi somiait) El ADMIHALLIl'unUI, . UrtlCBTintaprincIpi Dinic tognK tMtuBKiTANaijEidniinlla Afin* « nnfildt. Carina sauuDoi ct tibonun putlcep^ Domino fui) xGALLoaVMviTtl, Ton Wirt crflbnnt. Inde pmicipii optini later! adbBfCDt Ad cnrtmuin ufqne diem, OmDJI gnii jmqae aaiinioffieU. P«rfolnl Laboiifaat Unden et morbit ConfeSbl Inter tapleiui et iKhrrmu Aniconin, cliennini et fcrVoriim &HMlmDuna>, offictoTni, Itbcnliit Gntei devindoi ct 6dclei habuiij DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL OFFICERS Ot GREAT RirTAIH. 49 rate them at, and in all probability than they really nwf- rited. This prepofTcllion in his own favour caUKd hif firlt retirement from the fervice, and funk him much ia the popular opinion, which he never lived to regain. COLLINS, William,— is to be remembered only as having been appointed commarider of the Francis on tht I7thof May 1678. DRAPER, Thomas, — was appointtd fccortd lieute- nant of the Triumph in 1673, aAd in the courfe of the fame year was promoted to be firlt lieutenant of thk Unicorn. On the 17th of May 1678, he was promoted to the command of the Providence firelhip, and on thfe i4ih of September foUoiving was removed into the Ana and Chriftophcr. East, William, — was made fccond lieutentrlt of the Refoliition on the 2i(t of January 1673 ; and wasj like (he two gentlemen laft-mentlortcd, promoted to the rank of commander on the r7thofMay. He wxs appointed to tile Thomas and Katheride, a firrfhip, and docs not appear to have ever had any other command. FURLONG, Edward, — was appointed lieutenant of the Revenge in 1672. On the loth of Nov. 1673, he was made fecond lieutenant of the Newcaftle, and was promilied to the cocnmand of the Sarah fireDiip on the 17th of March 1678. HADDOCK, lofeph,— was the third fon of cajjtoafe Wlh'am Haddock*, a'commandcr of much celebrity dutin^; the warwiihfhc Dutch urtderthecommonwealt}i; hew* appointed lieutenant of the Lyon on the commencemetft of ihe fccond D.itch war in 167a : in the following yew he was removed into the Charles, ftilJ relainihg His orig^ nal ftaiion. On the 12th of April 1678, he was prrf. moied to the command of the' Swallow j no notice iitMeh of his having held any farther command in the.H^vy; bilt he is faid to have gone after this time into the fer\'ice of the Eart India Coinpany. HEYWOOD, Peter, — was appointed fccond lieute- nant of the Refolution on the ijih of Oflober 1673. Qp the 27th of December following he was removed to the fame Itation on board the St. David. On the 29th of • Sec Vol. I. p. iflj. Vol, II. D January L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: jO ftlVBS And CHARACTERS or Jsttiutr; 1675* he was promoted to be firft lieutenant of thcPhoenixi and on the I2th of April 1678, was Oifl £irthcf piomotcd, being then appointed commander of the Norwich. He was lent fooii afterwards to the coaft of ,Gtiineaf from whence he returned in the month of Maf j,6yg- He continued captain of the Norwich a confi- derablc time, as we find him, in the month of Aug. 1680, fcnt in this ftiip to convoy an outward-bound fleet of merchvit-^ips *o the Well Indies. We hear nothing of llim^fter this time. , HOPSON, Sir Thomas, — was apfsintcd fecond Iie»- .lenant of the DreadnODght on the commencement of the Xccond Qutch war !n 1672. On the loth of December l6;6, he was promoted to be fird lieittcnant of the Dra- gon. Oa the 5th of November 1677, tte was removed .into the Ceutiinon \ and on the lotti of December fol- lowing into the Mary. Soon after he was appointed to $he Draaon, that (hip was Tent to the Meaiterranean, ■^j^erc. Mf ■ Hopfon continued Tome years ; and was, on the ad of March 1678, promotcfT, by commiflion froio yicc-admiral Herbert, to oe cattain oif the Tjtger prize. ;He was lent bone to England ki the fotrowing year ; but ■Jud BO Other command till the loth of January 1681-I, ;Vhen he was appointed to the Swan. On the iSth of May i€8S, he was commiflioned, by king James, to the .^ooadventure. Having cordially acceded to thofe mea- 'fures i^ich cScfled the revolution, he was immediately Icmpleyed bv king William, who appointed him com^ 'Blander of tne York of lixty guns. In this (hip be fcrved at the battle ofF Beachy Head, and led, wilh.mweh pS- batry, the rear diviflon of the red fquadron unilerRoAc, who ever afterwards retained the higheft icgard for him, and with whom, whcAer accidcnuny or othexwifc we know not, he was afterwards more frequently aflbciatetf in commajid than vnth any other adttitral. Xn the month of January * he was appointed caamo» dore in the river Medway, and hoifled nit broad pendant * Ai ■ppcoi* by the MIowing te dte more indocci! 10 iafen, ■■ 11 eoa- uin* in inicrdKng itluDraiion of ibe Bode in wbicb ibc impreli ler- viee wai coududu at iha day, -Br DiailizodbvGoOglc MAVAL OtrpiClRS Of QRtAt MtTAfR. ft On board the St. Michael, which Mfi» imiMnscom^ tnandcd as a private captain. In the noaih of hl*j, loUowing he wai promoted ip be rcai-iklminJ of the blws •< Ar tbc faoDcMrtble Hewr KUkgKW, d^t fif Uffc IMw4., ind Gr Cloudy Shovel, k>ii|b^ MB)ir«l n(, liHr m^eBA fleet. " Ym ■(« hereby ici|ti«cd Uid dIreScd Kt nle VMR ^ the COV-' nnndof ill the Oiipi in (be tiver Meclfl9a. " To Colonel TbouM Hopr BujcHjr'i (hip the Saint V " By comamd of tbe ■dajnJijr.'* " By the benoanUe Heofj KiltcKK*. «<■!) A^- 1«- conneitnf war, held on board Ae Royal Son Aakti. hy the hoDuunble Hemf Kiltenrew, ef^j fli At aeoaneitof war, held on board Ae Royal SmcivigB, atBtock- ' 'ri. bv thehoDuunblcHemrKilteitrew.er^iflrlUpVDalar^; fir Cloudefly bbovel, kJii^ti, adnital* of their rnqtAiat Aeat; •■ Rerolred, " That all feafariM men ate li«blc to he preS ; a»d ftofe Aai «< tually belaag to aoy (faipiin the fleet are to be relumed to thofe thifu They frc to be tieftetted and not tntned to rc*au) «i4 ifca tdfiEtr' tiai preOod ihcm. " That all oBicert who tend their men lo pn(t ftall gin thaa lickcli. No. I, to 1 j, exprdfing in their titkeii what prcl»-|tng ihaf btlonglo. ".That all men belonginit to My Ihipi of their M^flic>( Aat ai« prciTed ot detained on bond other Ihipi, be itamriiatel^ reuuned M ■hrir proper Ihipi) and all reamco asdoibera, belomjng to aiy J ihtir iiiajeflin (bipt, and Found on board merchant- men, heuket) Ml of furh merrhant-Biipt end returned to ihtir proper fhipt. " That no ticketaorieaTtabcgiicn afiariha fA of Febmaif , r- cepi to ifae prcri King. ■' Thar all uptaini give their oticeri,. that go preSo^ ordcra la receive all volunieen, orany other neo itut are willing to erier inu the frrvice, andgive themt piffige on boarduchtltifilMy enter 0^ defigh for. L;,u,i,;™u,Goo^It: •$i ITVES AHD CHARACTERS Of Hwmg hoifted Ms flag on board the Breda, he was ap- giinica fecond in command of the fqiiadron under li| Sofge Rooke, which failed the latitr end of May aa &htDy to the Smyrna and Stretijhts fleets. The misfor- tflne which iKftdticm is too well known : but the moU oftDMrons nei'cr we're flnjiift enoiigh to charge either of Aifc adtnii^ts with the fmaHeft ftiifcondu^: on the con- tqiry, H is adrajltcdby alh that t^w pcudeoce and lleadi- ^jtkpieknieA-* very LOnliderat^e pan of the fleet, which, I»r Iftr their great exertions, and'tHe mifmanagemenl of rtfe'French admiral, would, inevitably have been loft. S6oj) after his return to Er^Iand, be was promoted to be Vhf^radvii^ af the bhiej and having hoiHed his Sag on t|tiatc was txpeHi.d, he was fent 10 the weAward with a riaudron, to cauateia<3 any fmall arma- ment Louis the Fourteenth might have clandeflinely aquijiped and fent to fea. In the following year he bad ■a fccond appointment of the fame kind ^ and in the month of June 1701, convoyed the troops from Ireland, which were Tent, by king William, to the afl>ftaiice of the Stales Oeneral ', who were then heavily threatened by France. Having accompljlhed this Service, he returned to Spithea4 on the i9(hof July. HolUlitie«..commencing in earned with France imme- diately after the death of king William, an event which took place on the 8th of March 170S, Hopfon was pro- moted to be vice-admiral of the red. Having hoiiVed his flag on boar^ the Prince George of ninety guns, he was fent fecond in command under his former coUeague, fir "George Rooke, in the expedition againil Cadiz.. The £eet Ikiled on the 19th. of June. Its ill fiicccfs with re- ^rd to the firft obie<£t of its attack is well kiiowa ; but it is needlefs to fay, little cenfure could fall on any of the naval comraanders, who could only co-cperate, as ihcy eeally did, to the utinoH, with the land-forces, who were, from many unforefeen obQaclcs, unable to efieA their wiflied-for purpofe. Difappointcd at Cadiz, fir George Rooke, as has bccii already related in his life, recaiyed information that Monl*. Chateau Rcnaud, viith a (Iron'g French fquadron and the SpaniO) falleons under his convoy) had arrived at Vigo, The bDunefs required difpatch; and though the attach appeared hazardous, after a fhort confultatJon it was unaoiinoufly agreed to make the attempt. The troops under the command of the duke of Oimond were landed on the izth of 0£lcbeT j and the admirals having Shifted their flags from the firft and fccohd rates, which drew tod much water, into Qlips of the next clafs, a detachment of fifteen Engiilli and ten Dutch ihips of the line were or- dered to attack i of thefe, vice-admiral Hopfon who had iliifted his Rag into theTotbay, led the van. The FrencK • King WilLam accowpaoicii ibij iimament himfclf. '_ 1> 3 admiral L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 54 ITV£!t AlfD CHA8ACTKR9 OF idmiral had prudently tAtn every poffibic precatition for bis defence : he had moored hii flouted ihipsinalinc kzrofs the entrance of the harbour, with their broadfidea tothc fea, Hchadconftroaedbeforethemaftrongboom, made of mafti, yards, cablet and top-chains, three yards in circumference. It was buoyed up at proper distances iy empty calks, and Sankcd M each extremity by a feventy gun (bip. HoploD had got withlacannoD'Oiot of the boom when it unfortunately feO calm, and he Was obBged to anchor. Critical and dangerous muft hive been his fituation ; cxpofed not only lo the fire of fo many of the enemv's' fbips, but alfo of a caftle on (bore, and frvcral ncwly- <:on(tru£tcd bxttcries mounted with heavy ^ju fhim the Ihips. He bore it, however, both with patience and for- titude ; and a breeze fpringing up ibon after, he innantly cut his cable, and crowding all the fail he could carry, lloie op to the boom and broke through imidfl a moli tremendout cannonade on the part of the enemy. 'I'he Torbayhad now to fuftainthe additional fire ofthcEfpc- nmcc and Bourbon, whofe broadfidcs, u it has been al- ready noticed, flanked the boom. The vice-adniinl was alone and unfupponed, for the reft of his divillon, and the Dutch under vice-admiral Vandcrgoes, were becalmed juft B9 they reached the boom, fo that they were reduced to the nccefliiy of attempting to cut their way through it. Fortune, however, did not long permit him to rcnkitn io fo critical and trying a condition \ a fecond breeze fortiw nately fpringingup, the Dutch vice-admiral luckily paifcd the boom through the breach Hopfon had juft made, and ttxik off one of his moft tioublefome antsgonifh by cap- turing the Bourbon. About this time a much more grievoui difsfter thitn any that had yet befallen him, threatened the vice-admiral; a French fire-fhip grappled him; but Providence, as it were, protedied aim: the vedel was a merchant-fhip laden with fnufF, and fitted up in extreme hafte as a lire- fhip without removing all the cargo; fo that when Ihc blew up, the fnufF in a great meafure extinguifhed the flames and preferved the admiral. He did not, however, entirely efcape ; the Torbay having received fo much damage, that he was obliged to Qtifl his flag on board the ^oa- . ,i,z<,i:,., Google WAVAl OF-PICERS OF GREAT BSITAIH. 55 Mnnmotith : bitt by the -time He 'hai ione fo, the French admiral had fired his ihip; and ardemng the feveral cap- tains under hia command to *u11ow his example, left a decided vitlory to ihe gallant airuilants. On examining the account ot thi^ attackt as related bv lir Geo. Rooke in his Journal, fiwne may be induced to think that admiral in fome degree disapproved and cenfiired Hopfon's con- d»Q, In anfwer to this we hirve to obferve, the account alluded to was not intended for t^e public ejre, as it con- tained his private fentiments written on the infknt, and eKpretki in &ich terms as (irft occurred to him. The representation of difficulty, which, according to Roolce's Journal, was made by the vice-admiral previous to the commencement of the attack, conveys to us an in- (tance of prudence highly commendable, as from his general condu3, and known bravery it is impolTible to impute it to any other motive. Sir George viewing the' fuppofod obftacle, thought lefs ferioufly of it than Hopfon.' Bi»n appear to have been, in fome degree, miftaken, the cpterprizc certainly being tnpre hazardous than the firll' thoueht it, though^ from the diflinguifhed bravery of Hopfon aad tho» under his command, it was crowned with a fuccefs the vite-admi;^! himfelf doubted. It is highly probable his caution before the adion commenced was produ^ve of that behaviour te> which fir Gcoi^e, in the jotirnal already alkided to, obliquely attributes rifh- nefs. The difference of Opinion between the two com- manders m^t flimulalC the vice-adoiiral rather to exceed his orders, by perfonallyexpofing himftif to greater dan- gers than the ftrift linC of his duty appeared to require, in order to convince hie commander-in-^hief, that the hefitation and doubt he had exprelTed, was the ofF^piing, not of timidity but of that caution which is ever jealous of the national honoiiV which failure foils. His reception at Jiomc, and the rewards To defcrvedly beilovf ed on • him, all confirm the propriety of the above' opinion. . * '■' St, JuQct'i, lliov. ,9g,.t7c*. " TbomasHopforijerq; vice-»dniiral of iJie led, i»vinf! hinazht the gfeai Bilpi in rifcty 10 B!ackHitc(,t»me[ 10 lown UB .nir.hi mid ■tlcadcd Lit rojril h^Iineft. this niurnin^, who icteivitd hiin vety. Ji>ii% and ^n led hip t» wait vpco iht i|iit«B, ^hu wMp{ilc4[ed la ... ^4 confer L„u,i,;™u,Coogli: 5D LIVES AMD CHARACTERS OF opinion. Having acquired honour fuHiciL-nt to fatisfy the mod ambitious man, and weulth enougl) to content a moderate one, he retired from this time from the fcrvice*. He died on the i ith of October 1717. JACOB, Thomas, — was appointed firft lieutenant of the Royal Oalt in the year 1665. In the ytar 1667 he ferved in the fame flation on bi^rd the Society ; iS he did in the following year, firil on board the Viftory, and after- wards the Henry. On the nth of May 1678, he was promoted to the command of the Hannibal. JONES, Daniel,— was made third lieutenant of (he Saint Andrew in 1673. On the ift of May 1677, l.e was made firft lieutenant of the Nonfuch ; and on (he 5th' of April 1678, was remove^ to the fame (laiion on board the Royal Charles: on the 12th of the fame month he was promoted to the command of the Mermaid. He had no other appointment till the i8ih of April 1682, when he was made captain of the Diamond ; and was recom- miflioned to the fame velTet on the ifl of June 1684. Or the 19th of March 1688-9, ^^ ^'" appoiot^di by king William, captain of the Forefight. This (hip was one of the fquadron under vicfl-admiral Killegrew, employed Jti the blockade of Dunkirk in the month of July following. In OAober it was employed as a cruifipj-; op which ft:r- vice, being in corapary with the Mordaunt and Lively, they fell m with a fouadron of t\^lve French ihips of war a few leagues to ttie fouth-weftoff Scilty : ten of them chafed the Mordaunt and Forefight for fome ^ours, biit without fuccefs ; the other two captured the Ltvely< Captain Jones, after he had efcaped.this danger, was pro- moted to the commai»l of the Captain of feventy guns, in confer lb« honour oF knighihood upop hiia, m* nark of her loyil favour, and part of the Tccompcafe which ber majcDy giaciouilv in*, tend* him, for hii lignaL fcrvice at Vigo, where he DiuKc ihroueli the boom (hat wa) laid acrafi ihat barbotir, for the fecnriiy oF (he French fleei aod SpaniOi galleont, wbcrcby hehurogrcailyconuibuiedto the fuccefi of ihit gtoriout CDterpriK. N.B. The queen aftcrwirdi fettled upon him a penlion offive hutMlred pounds a year, with a reverlion of three hundred pounds a ■-■- - '- 'a cifc fhc Ib6uld futvive hiiD. " He waifCprcrrnutiveforNewlon, in ihclfleof Wight, in t-05. He wat ■ oatine of Buocburcb near that place ; and having originally ran away from his pjrcDii, who were in a very repuia' ' '' '*' ioonkr 10 goto fea, never returned till be titiined ihe away from his pjrcDii, who were in a very reputable way nf life, inkofadtairal. which . ,i,z<,i:,., Google NAVAL 0FPICEK3 OP GREAT BKITAIH. 57 which (hip he rfafed tbc rear of ihe blue fquadron at the battle oET Dcachy Heiul, io which he beliaved with great gailaotry) and wtts fuon afterwards Jiili farther promoted to be captain of the Wjndfor Caflle, a fccond'ratc ; in which Klip he is pofitively faid to have periJhcd on the 29th of April 1693*. The circumftances attending his death were extremely fingular. The fliip, on her paltage from the Nore to the Downs, ran a-ground, through the' imlViifulnefs of the pilot, on the South Sand-Head. The weather was tine, and every poHible aHiAancc was ren- dered by the boats of the Ihip^ which were in company, id that great hopes were entertained "t that not only all, the crew but the (lores and provifions alfo would be faved. The firft was happily ctFe£ted ; bul the commander, and fome of the principal officers, too earned in the execution of what they thought their duty, and unwilling to quit the (hip while there appeared the finalleft probability of lav- ing any thine out ol her, remained in her, as it is iniiAed by fome, tiirit was too late. The event has been already related. KERKE, or KIRK, Charles, — was appointed com- mander of the Lenox yacht in 1678 ; and was after- wards, on the 6th of September 1681, commillioned, bv admiral Herbert, to fcrve a; lieutenant of the James galley, MAINE, John, — was made captain of the Sampfou firefliip on the 17th of May 1678. SMITH, Robert, — in the inonth of December 1678, was appointed captain of the Deal yacht. TtNNANT, Manhew, — was made lieutenant of the Zant frigate on the 3d of February 1673. On the 17th of the fame moct^ he wa« removed to the Briftoj ; and on the 9th of Apdl 1677, was appointed to the fame ftation on board the Guemfey. He was promoted to the corn- Oiand of the fame Qiipon the ifl of September 1678, and continued to coniiiund this veflel many years, being * Thii information is Cetwinly filfe 11 far as it relarci 10 [he dciih of cnnin Jonea, for wc mn perfcftljr convinced he commanded ihe Norfolk of eigk^i pin ia the raoaih of July, after ibii cveni ii faid to h«ve lakea place. The ical liaie aoA tamofr of hii dmih i* ua- + ■' De»I, May rhe ad. 1S93. The Wlndfor Caflle, which un. b»ppily ran i-ground on ihcrouihfuid-hcad, feu fait f!ill; the men are ■U taved, «nd it i* hoped ihe greweft ptrt of her fiorti and proviGont maj be piercrved if ilie vrctUMr piov* ^vounblc." iccsm- L„u,i,.™u,CoO^Ii: So IIVIS AWD CHARACTBSSTIP KCoinmifTioTied to heron the lolh of March 1679-80.'. We find him employed, in the month of Eh-ccmbcr fol- lowing, fo crtitfc at the entrance of the Briiifh Channel, which is the only paiticulsr wc have been able to colleQ re- lative to the early part of his fcrvice. Oa the aid of April 1687, he was appointed to command the Tygcr, tti which fhrp he continued till after the rcvoltrtion. King William, foon after he afcended the throne, made him captain of the Breda, which vefTel he commanded-at the nnfortundtc battle off Bcachy, in »vhich he behaved with great gallantry, and was fevcrely wounded. He happily recoTcred from this difaftcr, hut it was only to encounter a much more fatal accident. He was fent in the month of September, under thejotnt-ndmirals Haddock. Kiltc- grew and Aftiby, to afljft the cari of Marlborough 111 ihe reduction of Cork. The advanced fcafon obliged the admirals-in -chief, with the larger fliips, (jiiickly to return, leaving the reft under the command of the duke of Graf- ton, who being killed a few days afieriv-ards, it, of coin-fe, devolved on captain Tcnnant as the fl'uiar officer on the Aation. He did not long furrive this new honour; the Ercdah taking fire, by fomc unknown accident, in Cork' harbour, blew up, and wiih her periflicd the principal part of the crew. Captain Tennant himfelf was taken ' up alive, bat fo miferably burnt th^t he died in an hoiir after. TENNANT, William,— probably the brother of the foregoing unfortunate gentleman, is known only as.hav-' ingbecn appointed captain of the Chatham floop on (he. l6th of January 1678. . . VITTLES, Richard, — commanded the Catherine; yacht; to which he was «ppo{Dtcd oirtfae^zd of May* 1678. .'■■■" WETWANG, Jofeph, — ^was appointed commandei^ of the Sweepllakes in 1678.' He is by fom e co nfounded; with his brother fir John Wefwaiig,' asTiaving teen *ap- Jointed to command theNorthumberluid*ontlie2i(tDf. une 1679; but this is evidently a miftake, On thc^^ i6th of July 1680, he was appointed to the Happy Re- ' turn, which is the lateft information we have been able' to collefl concerning him. -; • See Vol. I. p. 184. WILFORD, L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: KAVAL OFFICERS OF CttCAT BtlTAtH. $9 WILFORD, Robert, — ^was appointed lieutenant of tfie York on the commencement of the fecond Dutch war m 1672. In the following year he was removed into the Royal Catherine. On the 9th of March 1674-5, he was appointed to the fame fUtion on board the Adventure ; and on the 9th of April was temoved into the Newcaftlc: on the 19th of Oec- 1678, he was promoted to the com- mand of the Eagle flreOtip ; to which veflel he was again appointad 00 the 26th of Maj' 1665. He long continued in the fame commBnd, as, at the time of the revolution, we find him receiving on board this vefTel the royal fu- gitive Jameit, at the time he effcded his efcape from RochenN. Thft unfortunate prince was compelled to tVek ihit Oidter by the violence of the wind and contrary ride, whidi prevented his getting on board the fhallop which lay ready to receive nioi: and it is mo(t probable Witfortf, tvho appears to have been cordially attached to fiim, accompanied hli exiled mailer in his night, for his name doa not again occur in the fervice. WOTTON, Peter,— is known only as having been appcMoted commander of the Cleveland yacht on the 30th ' o5:MaYi«7«*- Wi}.D, Thomu,— ^mu made lieutenant of the Saint George in 1665. He had no other appointment till the 3odi of March 1678, when he was commillioned to be tnird lieutenant of the Royal James. On the third of Augufl following be wu promoted to the command of the Swo^lbkes. 1679. BRIDGES, John,— was appointed, by vke-admintl Herbert, to be firft lieuteaant of the Rupert on the 30th of April 1678. On the lath of April 1670, he was pro- moted, by the lame commander, to be captain of the Al^r Prize ; and, which is very fingular, was removed the fitmc day into the Orange Tree. On the 5th of May following he was re-commiflioned to the fame veJTel by lir John Narborough. On the 19th of June 1680, he * Some mention ii made, ta Cr C. Sbavel'i Aperi, of bit com- iiMnding • fhif in i&jj : ttt nune doei ool appear. He wu alive, hi unemployed, in 1699. returned L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc $0 LIVKS AKD CRAKACTEK^ OF Kturned to his former rank of lieutenant, and was ap- pointed to the Norwich. CARMAN, John,— ^vas, on (he 1 2th of Oaobcr 1 6^9, appointed, by vice-admiral Herbert* to be commander of the Whipiler fircflilp. COLLINS, Greenville, — is well known in the naval world as one of the moA able navigators, and e:^)erieaccd pilots of his time. A number of chaits puSliOied by him arcAill very defervedly held in higlicftcem:"bui he never attained any very couOdcrable ranlt in the fervice, having; Tcafcely ever commanded any otlier veffel tjiaa a yacht. His tirtt commiflion as a coinioander was In tbe year l£79, when he was appointed to the Lark. - X)n the loth of June 16S1, he was removed into the Meilin yacht; to which veJtel he was again commiflioaed on the 4lh o£ April i68a. In the foIiDwing year he was removed into the Monmouth yacht ; to whicn he was afterwards re- commiflioned twice, Brfl on the a^d of Marcli 16S5, and fecondly on the 25th of April 1086. On the 13th oi June 1088, he was made captain of the Martin yacht. The impending revolution cauled him to be removed into a nation fomewhat more adive ; for, on the 1 5th of, September following, he was appointed to couvnand the Young Spragg, a fmall fixth rate. He continued in fer-i vice alter the revolution, as we find hioi commanding the Mary yacht, and atteoding king William to .Holland in theyear 1693. DUNBAR, James, — was ntade (econd lieutenant oi the Royal Catherine on the commencement of the f^on J Dutch war in 1672; of the Fairfax, and afterwards of ' the Advice in 1673 ; and ejf die NtwcaAle on the 15th of June 1674. On the 22A df September 1676, he was appointed firll Ifeutensnt of the Cbarka gattey.. .On fhe 39th of September 1677, fir John Naiwrqudi, wt tba^ time commander-in-chief in the Medrierranean, promoted him to be mailer and commander fif the Golden Ma^-> gold, a prize taken jufl before from the.Algerines. On the 15th of March 1677-8, he was rc^appeJDted, by fit John, to the fame Aation on board the fame Ye0eL On the 26th of July 1679, he was promoted, by the com4 mifltoners for executing the office of ]ord high admiral, to be captain of the RicKmond. a CILLERY, u, Google HAVAL OFPtCEXS 07 GKEAT BXITAIR. Dt CILLERY, James, — ^was appointed, by vice-admiral Herbert, to be captain of the Projeft fire-bark on the i2ih of Oflobcr 1679. MASON, John, — was, in 1679, made commander of the Europa. PARSONS,'" Daniel,— was, on the 14th of June 1 679, made commander of the Bonetia floop. YOUNG, Anthony (ad,)*— waf, on the ^th of July 1679, appointed commander of the James hired Ihip of war. 1680. AYLMER, George,— was; tbe, third fon of fir Chrif- topher Ayliner, of ^In^h, in the kingdom of Ireland, and younger brother of Matthew, lord Aylmer, whofa memoirs have been already givcB. He was appointed (ieutenant of the Swespflske) on the loth of April 1677, and of the Dunkirk on tk* iu\i of Augyft 167S. H« was promoted' to the conKnaad of the Dartmouth on the pith of September 1680, and removed into the Ann yacht on the 14th of April 1681. On ibe Sth of February 1683-4, he was appointed, by lord Daitmouth, then cam* mander-in-diiefof the fleet lent to Tangier, to becRptaia of the Forefight. On the ifth of June he was retaovcd 'into the Referve, by king James the Secoad, who, on the 26thof Oflober 16S8, appointed, him, as an officer weH attached to his pcrfoa and fervice, to coouaaod the Port'* land. Jaows was, however, miflaken in the opinion be had formed «f captain Ay]iBiii'»|vinciplcs. 1 nough he poITcired too much integrity, to fallify his truft by quitting the fervice of his former fovervfn while be kept poSeflioo of his throne, yet he had on-tbeartjer hand too much true Satriotifm to {train his loyalty fa 'far as to become, in any agree, the fuppottcF of that fovei;eign'f mtafures, taken * A iHaerake of ibii oficcr bu beta alr^tdj taken notice of. Vol, I. p. 43», LllulllzcduyCOOgli: 9t tJVZS AND CHARACTERS Ot in concert with a forfiign perrer, the natural foe of hit country, to reduce, by force, thsit people whofe allegianca his tyranny had forcibly broken. This refinement, on what they probably thought atf honourable and honeft attachment, was confined toTre< vanion, Strickland, Jennings, and a very few more of infe- ricr note ; the remainder adhered to the true interelts of their country, and hailed the prince of Orange, their law- ful fovereign, by the title of William the Third. This tnonatch continued him in his command, a truft of whicfi lie very foon afterwards proved himfelf highly dcfervlitg. He waE killed at the battle of fiantry Bay, after having very eminently diflinguifhed himfelf by his perfonal intrc* pidity and conduct, the grcateft exertioni of which were rendered indifpenfably neceflary by the very fuperior force of the enemy *. It ts but judice [o fay, the orave Her- bert, their admiral, though he failed of obtaining vi&ory, gave every poflible honour to the condu£l of thofe he ct»ninanded, by declaring his officers and featlicn behaved themfelves 'vrith-all the courage and chearfulnefs that could be expeded from the brsveft men. King William paid every grateful tribute to optatn Aylmer's memory that wai la his power, by making an handfome provifion for hi< widow, who furvived him. FROUD, Frederick, — was appointed lieutenant of the Dreadnought in 1671. On the i^thof Februaiy 1675, he was made lieutenant of the Pearl ; from vihlch fhip he was removed into the fipocdnell on the 35th of the flime month. He was promoted to the command of the Swan on the i ith of July ifiSo. Oh the 8th of January 1683-4, he was appointed, by lord Dartmouth, to com- mand the Two Lyons Prize. It is not known how long he continued in this ftation, or at what time he returited to the Swan't, which vefletwe hnd him captain of in the mMith of May i688. Od the 30th of AuguftfoUowing hs was made commander of tfie Ruby. He continued captain of the fame (hip aftet tbt revolutio!), for we find hrm commanding her in April 1689, and font by admiral * The rmilkA of whole tbift vere equal to the Urged in the Briiifll i^uadroD. t It it fuppofcd 10 bav< he«n ia ilw yeir i6S5. LiiQiiizcduvCooglc KAVA^ OFflC^ttS or GStAT BXITAlH. .6q Herbert into Q^rk harbour, to cut out two French reflels men lying there, that were intended for privateers, a fcr- vice hegallaiilly and happily effe^ed. As his name doss not again occurs it is inolt probable he either died fooa .afterwards, or relircd. GARDNER, Thomas,— w«, in 1680, appointed commander ccmber following he was removed into the Briftcd as a fecond Ueutetunt ; but did not continue long in that pofl, being promoted, on the aid of February io8o-l, to the command of the Ann yacht. On the 8tb of May 1682* he was nude captain of the Briftol ; and in 1685 of the Rupert. On the 6th of September in the fame year, he removed into the Guardland. . On the t4th of AuguH 1686, he was commifComd to the Crown, in which diip he .&iied fiw Cadiz ; and the _ „,.™:,.,Cooglc ^4- iives and characters of Mediierrancan on the 26ih of the fame month, under the command of fir Roger Strickland. He returned to Europe with that admiral in the beginning of the following "year. On the 25th of September 1688, he was appointed to command the Elizabeth. The mighly preparations of thf. prince of Orange alarming all the fears of James, he adhered (Irentioufly to the former, which is the lefs to be wondered at in him, as, independent of every other confi- deration, he had a very fltong perfonal atiachment to Herbert, afterwards earl of Torrington, the firft and moft zc^ous among the parlizans of Williain. At the battle off Beachy Head he commanded the Sovereign, being chofen by Torrington as an officer of whofe abilities he entertained the highcft opinion, and in 'whofe friendfliip, as a man, he placed the mod unlimited and welt-deferved confidence, a confidence he appears to have truly ineriled, as well by his gallantry as by the clear and honed teftimony he bore, in ipite of clamour, to the earl's prudence, ability and fortitude *. The ferviccs of captain * Wc hive inferieil >a abllriQ of fail cTidcnec, and are the more induced to it by the powerful icfliniony it alToidE orthe carl's innocence. " About eight we csme near the enctny. The e4i] of Torrington then obferving ibi French admiral bid ih>rty>rcwit(bip(s.heidof him, ■Ditfttty-eigbi* ftern; tbtthimfeifheda-beidjuf bint (fainy-four (bipi •nd iwcnly-ivr* a-ftcm, aod ihil if he bad lakrn Toqrville lo engage hi* rea( mull have beco oveipowercd; he cdKcd away l« lUe foiilhward to bring^himfclf to the i:cct[eof (be fleet, ifiat eVeiy one might have ' " The idttiral, wtMt> itotil 10 bear down to the enemy. Tiid tie wQuIdnoigD ftent-lobg, for ibtn be fliotild be raked foie and aft, but thu be would bnng to and go away looking at jbtiu, ima(;ining ihcy vould keep iheir wind, which ihey did not, for they fought three or four poinlt from ihe wind, having by that means an opportunity to veaiher ib» Daicb. " The Dutch hid b»l t wtA faaadrtut, and did not bear up at ihe^r ouehl. About niae ■dmihl Vuioct PuLien bepn to hrc it a grctt diiuDce, ind iflcr thai wc could fee Do more of ibrnp. Vice-admiral ADiby began prercnilvafKc the Dtitcb, and ihe^lut foon after. Wc (the red fujuidton) did not begin (fie fight till sbour ten, and ihereitrdn we did not foon;r wit, benirfe (tie carl of Turiingion ordeted there Ibould be no fifitig nil «ic ciue near (be enemy. ". About eleven we faw fome French fliips had weathered the Dutch i 1 aJkrd the admiial whether be would fuEfrr them to wraiher him alfo. He anfwned, iiot if he could help ii, and tmlcrcddie fore- DolizodbyGoOgle NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 65 captain Neville were not confined to the duties of a naval corninand only, for, in tlic month of OQober 1690, fol- lowing the example of the brave and ever- to- be- lamented duke of Grafton, he landed, as a volunteer, at Cork, whrch was then beficged by the Engliffi army under the catl of Marlborough . He was prefent at the attack of the breach made by brigadier Churchill, and, as the poft of moft honour and danger, marched, as did feveral other emifient fea-nfficcrs, with the grenadiers under lord Col- chcfter, who led the atTault. We have not been able to difcover what fliip he com- manded during the years 16^1 and i692,but in June 1693, we find him firft capiai^ of the Britannia, under the joint admirals-in-chief, Kiilegrcw, Delava! and Shovel. In the month of July following he was promoted to be rear- admiral of the blue; and having hoiked his flag on board the Neptune, failed with a fmall fguadron into the north fea, to counteraft any equipment the FrciKh infght make from Dunkirk. He wasfoon recalled from this rtation, and feni, in the month of December follow. ing, to the Slreighis under the command of fir Francis Wheeler. He hoifted his flag on board the Royal Oak, and narrowly efcapcd deftruflion in that dreadful florm, on the J9th of February, when fir Francis perifhcd with his Ihip the Suffex, and fevcral others of his fquadron. Neville faw the danger 'and ufeU every poflible means to acquaint his companions of it, but unnappily with little fuCcefs. He himfeif having the Streighis open, ftood through them to the weftward ; and running over to the Barbary fhore, under which he had fmooth water and wal proteded from the violence of wind, he continued there neb a-boaid, and that we (bould luff (o (he eiQward j by thefe meani wcBorlo-windwardofiheGrdfion, ind bitdljr cleared (he Albemirk} ■1 mi%. tiine i( fell calm, and we got our boati a beid. *.' The cailof TorrifM(on ordered hiibo«Ii (o tow hin between th« Cuuh and (he cneiny, where he came (o an aachor. " 1 believe, a( onetime in ibc fight, ibc rrd fqaadroii wHaineac tbe enctny ai'any other: I never fiw j^reater Rnii|t than ibe French made that day; nid am oropTnion weoughi toblefiGudfacihccalm, or tbc whole fleet wouid have been in ihe greitefl danKer." AcCDUni giicD to tile Lordi CommiSoaen* * Several of the Biif* miftiking tbe bay of Gibnltir for tbe £■• ttanccof tbe Siicigbn. Vtji.n. E ia DolizodbyGoOgle €6 LIVES AND CHARACTEXS OP in fafety till the weather became moderate, and he was . enabled to (land back to Gibraltar, where he received the melancholy intelligence of his ^miral's misfortune. The fhatte red remains of the fquadron being colle fled, it was rcfolvcd to return to Cadiz to refit, and put it in the beft condition for fervice cirnimftances would permit. The latter end of June admiral RuITel arrived from Eng- land, and difpatched a frigate into Cadiz, witli orders to Mr. Neville lo join him off Cape Spartci; which he did on the 30th of June. The fleet continued its courfe 10 the Mediifrranean. On its arrival ofFAlicant, the rear- admiral was detached with a fquadron of ten Ihips to cniife between the iflands and the Barbary coaft, as well in hopes of intercepting any French (hips that might be on their palfage, as to procure and facilitate the tranfpor- tation of wood and other nee effaries, of which the fleet (rood much in need. This fervice being accompliflied, nothing memorable took place during the remainder of the year, the fleet retired for the winter to the harbour of Cadiz, where it arrived in fafety on the 8th of October. In the month of February, or, according to Lediard, early in March, rear-admiral Neville waa again detached with a fliong fquadron to cruize off Cape Spartel, that he might intercept any fquadron Tourville might attempt to fend through the Streights to Breft. The French ad- miral having too much caution to rifle fo hazardous a meafurc, the cruife was fruitlcfs. On his return, the . whole fleet failed again for its former (tation, the Medi- terranean j and the rear-admiral was detached with 3 fquadron to Final, to convoy from thence to CatalcMiia fix thtiufand German and Italian troops which were to feive in that province. He failed from Fmal on the 23d of June, and was met by the main fleet, under RulTel, offToulon. They proceeded together to Barcelona, where they arrived On the 19th of Jul^. The extreme dilatorinels of the Spaoiaids proved a mcfl fevere impediment to the opeia- tions, fo that, ncrtwith(tanding every poflfible afliftancc that could be rendered them by Neville, who had been more immediately, in his fubordinate (Nation, connefled with them, as well as every other aid on a larger fcale that could be afforded them by RuITel, the campaign ended as difgcacefully to them sa tbetr want of energy and fpirit could Diailiz.dbvGoOglc HAVAL OFFICERS OP ORBAT BRITAIH. Of could render it. No probability exiting of farther fervice i- utd that part of " which rtlatcd to the confinement of the French 8eet in the harbour of Toulon being, through the advanced feafon, accompliJhed for the remainder of ^ year, the allied fleet returned to Cadiz. In the month of Oflober fir George Rooke, who wa» appointed to relieve Ruird, arrived at (Dadiz ^ and Neville mving removed his flag into the Keptilne continued ta ferve with him in the fame (lation he had under his pre- decelTor. The reduced number of the fhipi, wKidl fcarcely equalled half that of the French fleet in Toulon, together with the very ill llate for fervice many of them were in> as well in point of equipment as want of men, totally prevented all ofFenfive operations; fo that fir George, thoroughly tired of a fituation which promifcd nothing but ina^ivity, being empowered by dilcretional orders from home, returned to England in the month of April. During the enfuing fummer we find Mr. Neville einplayed as commander of a fmall cniiling fqiiadroo ftationed between Cape Clear and Cape Finifterre for the {irotedion of our commerce, which commerce having' iiftaincd no fignal difafter during this period^ as it is a convincing proof of the vice-admiral's care and attention,' fo is that attention an object of fufllicient confequence and praife*. In the month of OQober he was promoted t<» be a vice-admiral, and appointed commander-in-chief in- the Mediterranean. He accordingly failed on thejd of November with a fquadron of fifteen Enf^lifh and Dutch (hips of wart having a confiderable fleet of merchaftt-meA bound for Cadiz under his convoy. During his paflaM ' he met with fuch unfavourable weather, that hitwhdC fleet was feparated and difperfed. Several of the iner- cbant-veflels were loilt^ and the remainder* together with- ^ Among ihe Shovel Papcn ii ■ IcttEr from fir Cloudrtlv. dlte^ fth oF September 1695, recommLndiiig irar-wlmir*! Nrwille, wb» then held ihe honorary pod or cipiaia of maiinei, in Tuccerd rear* sdmirat Miichcll u majar gf ihe fimc icgimenii Mitchell b(iaf Mthe finic time recommended to be Jietiienut-coloncl. i- Exina of • lelicr from Cadiz, Jan. 7, N. S. 1696. " The whole fleet that cime from England, undci the commind «f vice-admiral Meviile, aie atriTcd ber«, CNCepi levcnuca m ciahretB £■ 1«1 L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 68 LTVES AND CHARACTER! OP with the (hips of war, arrived at Cadiz, at different periods and in a fhattercd Itatc. ■; The fleet had fcafcely failed from England when intcl- ligciice was received tft England that the French court had formed a pimc^t, ratlier pirutical tlian nitionai, of fur- prizing the Spaiiifh galleons. This was to be executed by a fquadroD dlfpatchcd froin Euinpe under the com- mand of the Sieur Poimis, to co-operate wiih MonfJcut Uq Calfc, who was already at Hifpantola and had him- fetf planned the expedition. The Spaniards being at that tone the allies of England, it became neceiTary to lupport, ajid, if podiblc, prote6l them. A fmall force was dif- p^tched, under conimadore Mees, to Ma diDH' having attacked Ca.tliagena; in co.;fequtince of IM of mtrrh>nt-(hipi, Engtift »nd Dnrth ; we have an sccouot of fokr th*t ire loD, the rcf) ire diily exprtlei. Vice-admiral Neville prepuet to go la fei acain in purUiance of the order* he hai received. u, Cookie NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 6() w>icti imcliigence he ftaiJ no longer at Port Royal than was ablblutcly iici-tiraij id takt on bu-id a I'lipi^^ly wf w;itiT. 'I'hh being diMii-, lie itniiiecI;at(J:y failed fur Can- thagciia, alttmpliiig to pafs ihicugli (he leeward paliUge. Contiary winds blowing frnm aqi;artcr vtry unufuai in (Itat part of the world, retarded hts pragrefs many days. During this interval a Hoop came in, that ktt Pono Bello with tile galleons, which were fifteen in number, and were then making for Jamaica to get a fupply of provifions, of vhich they were miith in want, 'i'lie vice-admiral im- mediately difpatchcd two floops in fi-arch of tbcm, with information that he was then on the point of proceeding to Carthagena in feardi of Pointis, and Ihould fiom ilience foon return to JamiiiL-a. On the 27th of May the allied fquadron being then about half-channel over in its way "to Cart';agciia, got fight of Pointis •, who was on his re- . turn to Europe laden with plunder. The vice-admiral iminedia'ciy gare chacc ; aiid the Warwick, one gf the ,fqu fbipa, left bim and aa^ oS, » ihe uliok fleet did towaidievcii.iig."' E 3 the L„u,i,;.du,Goo^It: iJO LIVIS AND CHARACTEKS OP the French flilps, which being the better Tailer of the two unfortunately effeiSed her cfcape. The Warwick, how- ever, captured a fly-boat, on board which was found plate to the value, as it is faid, of two hundred ihoufand pounds, a moA unequivocal proof of the immcnfe treafure which the French were bearing ofl^. . The purfuit was continued five days wiihout tfkSt^ when five of the Ihips, among which were thofe of the two admirals, having fprung ihcir top-mafls and ftiOainecl other damage in their fails and yards, the vice-admiral very reluiftantly difcontinued a purfuit, from which there was fo little profpeft of fuccefs. Difappoin'ed in his hope of engaging thp enemy, and depriving them of their ill-acquired wealth, he next turned his thoughts to Cir~ thagena, whither he refolved to fhape his courfe, to fee yhether the galleons were fafe, and whether he coul alas! his 1a(t hope, and reflecting, with hcart-.felt forrow, on the little fervice cf. fefted by a fqnadron, fo ftrong as that put under his comr mand ; feelingly fenfiblc of the fniitlefs expenditure of his country's treafure on this occafion, and truly commifcr^ ating the many brave and gallant men who ignoble' fell i prey to an inhofpitable, and unwholfotne climate, he funk unoer this accumulated grief, deeply regretted by all whp knew him» as a man of approved courage, ability, and in- tegrity, and againl^whom the only charge the biiiercft of his enemies could with propriety make, was, th^i h^ was unfortunate. Thus, as it has been elfcwhere remarked, ended an expedition, in the plan and defigri of which there ap. peared no error, but m the execution endlef^ confiifion and aiferder i an expedition on which England had bellowed avail DiailizodbvGoOglf HAVAL OrilCERS OF GXBAT BKITAIN. ft ■ ■ . • '^ a,v»ft cxponcc, principalljr to oflfcr a iervice rejefled by thofc for whom it was- intended, and in ihe courfe of which the fleet was Ihippcd of all its ctiitf officers. A« this obftrvatioo conveys an oblique cenfure on the coo- duil of the admiral, we be^ the reader to remember there are only two points in which it has ever been contendej that his diftTCtioiiary powers could, in any degree, either facilitate or impede [ucccfs. The firft of tnefe4>ointt Is, that he cruiled fifry-eight days off Madeira. Cainp- bell rather ccjdiy obferves, " If he thought himfelf bound by his infiruflions he was jiiAified ; but, however, this ccriainly proved the ruin of the whole affair, for if he had ftooo away for Barbadoes inftcad of cruifine there,, he might have come time enough to have attached the French before they left Hifpaniola." Whether this dif- ferent conduS would not liave contributed more to the fuccefs of the expedirion thun that which .was followed is not the qucRion i all that is requiljte for us to do in de- fence of thc'adjniral's reputation, is to prove he could not have a<3ed otherwife than he did without being euilty of a breach of orders : the tenor of thefe were, as Campbell himfelf admits, that he (hould repair to Madeira, off which place he was to cruife till he ihould be joiaed by rear-admiral Mees, This officer did not fail from St. Helens till the 26th of February, He had a remarkable tedious pafiagc to Madeira j and yet the united fquadrons arrived at Barb^doeS on the I7lh of April*, fo that no polTiblc delay' is imputable, on this occafion, to 'Mr. Neville. Campbell farther obferves, " The admiraU foing to Jamaica was another misfortune, for, as it will s hereafter (hewn, if he had failed directly, on the firft intelligence he had, for Carthagena, he mull have fur- * ZxiiaQ of » Idler fiom Plymoaifa, diiid June ibe Cih, 1^7 — ■■ On ihe 3d mOiUi arrived in ihii port ihe Lyon, of LoiidoiL VVMliim Scuton m.fler, from AniJguj : he depjried from ihenc- ihc t4ih of April, and rhe fame day he firleil the Colcheter man of war Ciiae ia from Barbadoet, and /pye noiioe ihat vice-admiral Neville, ■iid capuin MceDiDg ^ point of land dilcor vercd the IhipG they were in quell of, laying behind ijU On a fignal made from one of the .out^onod veiTels thi^ immediatelyendeavouredtoflipandget under fail. Ctipjk Fichard finding there was no time to be loilj fqntt\is4)QaM!» manned and armed, to attack a large fly-boat which kt4 yearly got under fail ; at the J'ame tinae he hMnft^ gave chacc to the ftiip of war which was their c«Dvoy »at was endeavouring to Hxctch out to fea. The boRV boarded the fly-boat, and, after a ilout Fcfjftance,-c3rriQ4 htt. Captain Pjchard in the mean time gained conliderr jibly on ihelbip of war ; and having nearly gpt alongfidc, ^c Frenchman wore fhip, and rao in for the jbore, neitr fvhich he flruck on a ridge of rocks. The fhip was iqv pediatf ]y 6red by the crew, and foon afterwards blew up. It was afterwards found to have been the Jeifey, a fourth tate> taken fome time before from the EngUffa in the W(bip under the guns of the callk, which fired at them very bnfkly both fhot and fhells. By the time this fervice was thus fuccefsfully accom- plifhed. it was four o'clock in the aftem< on, and captnin Fichard did not think it pmdejit to attempt the dcltruc- tion of the very tnconliderable number of velfels which lemained, as the approach of nighi, and the appearance of the weaiher* whiijh now became a ferious cDnhdeTatioii from the wind having fr^lheoed coaOderably, might have piuch endangered the &fety of the whdc force under hii command ^ fo that he had the fatisfadlion, by havii^ timely nus^cd pnideo^ with galUiiUy, (tf bavug given the DiailizodbvGoOglf f6 ItVES AHB CKAKACTERS OF fte enemy a mofl ferious How without Aidalning any in- jury to counterbalance it. Among ihc nimiber of the enemy's (hips defiroycd were two corvettes or (loops of war, which were fet iin 6re by the explofion of the Jerfcy, and a very large (hip laden *ith cannon and mortars driven on (hore i^on the rocks ^ St. Mathews point. The French merch»nt-(hips were about fifty-five in number, of thefe forty were burnt m funk. Their lading chiefly confiftcd of wine, fall and brandy. In the tnonth of April 1695, we find hrm at Malaga commamJing a detached fquadron of fii(s Eiigli(h and fiiut* Dutch (hips of war. Hrf continued in commilTion during the peace, and died commander of the Shrew(bury on the loth of March 1701-2. POOLE, Benjamin, — was appointed fcconS lieutenant of the Leopard on the 27th of March 1677. On the llth of September 1678, he v?as promoted to be firfl lieutenant of the Happy Return ; from which (liip he was Fem.ved on the 2d of May 1679, by fir Joi|n Narb rou'gh' to the fame Ration on board the Rupert. On the 6th ta April 1680, he was made lieutenant of the Bn((ol 4 and 01) the aoth of December following was promoted to the command of the Sampfon fireihip. Nothing farther 15 known of him. " ' WHHELER, Sir Francis,— was the difccndant of a family of fome antiquity and very refpeflabic p'jffcflionS iij the lounty of Kent. Having early attached hlmfelf to a fea-faring life, he was, on the joth of April 1678, ap: Glinted (econd lieutenant of the Rupert, by vice-admiral erbertjwhowas then fecond rn command on the Mcdircr-[ ranean fiation. On May 5, 1679, he waspromoted by fif J. Narborough, who was then commander in-chief on that ftation, to biu hril lieutenant of the fame (hip. He ap^ pears to have long continued on the Mediterranean (Na- tion, as we find him removed by admiral Herbert, who liad then attained the chief command there, to be fiT(t lieutenant of the Briftol "n the 6th of April 1 680. On the nth of September fillowing he was promoted, by the £ime admiral, ti> be commander of the Nnnfuch. In the month of May i68i, while captain of this ihip, a clr- oumftarjce occurred, in «fcif inconfiderahle, but- from the ferious and finguiar confi;quences that attended it. I'he Adveniure, L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ic RAVAL OFVICEXS OF GREAT BBtTAtlT. 77 Adventure, captain Booth, was engaged with a tai;ge Algcnne coifair, wlio was on the point of fubmitting wlien the appearance of the Nonfuch, which was con- ceived by the enemy to be alhip-of their own nation, in- duced a longer and very fpirited rcfiftance, till, at the dawn of the following day, captain Wheeler, having hoifted Englifh colours, took pollcffion of the pirate, who inade not the Icaft refiltance. Circuin fiances fimilar to thofc attending this a£lion have, in latter days, frequently occurred. On the 9th of Augiift following captain Wheeler waa removed into the KingsfiOier, a (hip of the fame rate (afsurlh) but fuperior force and fize. In the month of OfttAer he fell in with the Admiral of Sally, a (lout fiiip and commanded by a man who behaved with a reiblution highly befitting a more honourable caufe than that ia ^^fiich he fought. The engagement was cibAinate ; but ' after it had continued fomc hours the corfair (truck, and had received fo much damage in the afiibn that (he funk very foon after captain Wheeler had taken pofTelHon of her. On the aan of Augpft 1683, he was made com- mander of the Tyger, and was re.commi(Tioned to the fame vctTcl on the 4th of May 1685. On the i8th of September 1688, when the attack about to be made by the prince of Orange was raifed from fufpicion toalmojt' an abfoluie certainty, captain Wheeler was appointed, by ling James, to command the Centurion ; and, as one of the la(t public a£ls of his fovereignty, was removed, by commfffion from the fame prince, on the 16th of Novem- ber following, into the Kent. He received the honour of knighthood about this time, and did not long contiiiuc in the Kent, as we find him, in. ' the month of April, commanding, as fir FrancU Wheeler, the Rupert, He was difpatched from Portf- mouih, on the 4th of May, to join admiral Herbert ; but the aflion of Bantry Bay had taken place, and Herbert was on his returu to port before fir Francis was clear of the Channel, He had, however, the good fortune not to return unfuccefsful, having captured a very !at^ and valuable mcrchant-fhip from St. Ooniing^^ bound to Bre(t. In the month of July he was detached by admiral Her- bert, now created earl «f Torrington, with twelve fhips of DiailizodbvGoOglf of wat of dlflSrrtit fixes, tb lo6lc info Breft Harbour anrf vraTch the motions of the French fleet in that port. He had the gbod' fortune' during the ihort time he was em- ployed oil this fervicc', to capture a fmall French (hip of war, bound with difpatches from the late king James to France, ahd twenty-fix other velTelj, from France, bouitd to Ireland, laden With (tores, proviHons, and am munition » for that prince's army. At the battle off Beachy Head he coinmanded the Albe- marle of ninety guns, the tenth (hip in the firitilh line. He had now attained To high a character, that, in i6g2, . he was, although a very young officer, made rear-admiral . of the blue, and appointed commander-in-chief of a fqua- dfon Tent to the Wefl Indies, with a privilege, which had been for Tome years difufed, of wearing the union flag at his nuin-tnp-maft head as Toon as he was clear of found- ings. The fquadron, which confifted of the Refolution of iiXty guns Mie flag (hip) ; the Dunkirk of fifty-two ; the Riiby, the Tyger, the Advice, and the Chefler of forty- two each; the Dragon of forty; the Falcon of thirty-fix; the Experiment, Mermaid and Pcmbrotfr of thirty- two ffuns i together with the London Merchant hofpital-fhip, ttit Canterbury ftore-(hip, the Quaker ketch, a bomb- veflel and three (ire-fhips*, failed from Cowes road on the 9th of January 169Z-3. It arrived on the 26th of the fame month at Madeira, but did not reach Barbadoes till the' I ft of March. It was there re folved in a council of war that Martinico (hould be immediately attacked ; and infortilation was, in confequence, difpacched to general Codriogton, of the arrival of the fquadron, that he might Cfdieft the forces, intended to be raifed by the colonies as auxiliaries to the regular troops fent from Europe^ which confifted of the two entire regiments of Fuuike ■ and Goodwin, befidea fome detachments from other corps, and recruits, making in the whole a body of fifteen hundred men : to thefe were to be added two battalions of fotir hundred men each, raifed purpofely for this expcdi" t Ttsefe wtn to be joinnl in the WtR Indict by the Norwtebf DiaBMnd awl Mordaunt of forty.tvro gUDi eatli, ibeGtwrarey of twcD^'cigbt^ lai dw Ucoty f nM«f tweutj-Um, vU^^ were •Ircidf ibtfc. 8 tioD DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAlL-OFFICERI'OfCtfiAT IJftlTAIK. ^ lionat BarftadoQE; and fbifie other cdohisl rcgitnents-anir regubr tnxips which were with general Codrington in ttte liCewaKi Iflaadsj To thefe fir Fr. Wheeler, who is fliid by CstopiKl), and with great appearance' of juflice, to have been a> gallant and judicious an' officer as any in the navy* nroyofod to add * corps of fifteen hundred' more, compnicdof volunieer feanwii belonging to the fquadron. This formidable reinforcement' he very fpiritedly, ax^ rmbly ofiered to command on fliore, himfelf. The ficet, having taken on board the troops railed at Barbadoes, failed from thence on tbe 3olh of March, and anchored in the Cul de Sac Marine at Martinico on the rft of April. Sir Francis Wheeler, with the colonels I,toyd and Fouike, which 1a(t was the commander-in- chief of the land forces, immediately went in a fmall vcilel to reconnoitre the coafl and find a convenient place to difembark ' th« troops. Sir Francis encountered the gieatdl perfonal rifk while cmpl<^ed in this occupation, a mulket Ihot, from one of the enemy's fmall parties which lined the fhore, having ft ruck htm under the Irft baead ; but, as it fortunately happened, from the dillanCc, withoutproducing any worfe effe£l than a violent contu- fion. The troops under colorrcl Foutke were landed the next day ; and on the 5th fir Francis himfelf, notlung in- timidated by his late narrow eft^pe, went a-Qioie wit^ a body of five hundred volunteers from the fhips; and after dif^fling die er>emy by dcftroying feveral of their prin- cipal fcttlements, returned -en board the fame night. On the 9th general Codrington with the Leeward Ifland trsops, and colonel Lloyd's regiment, arrived: and the troops which had firft landed being all taken on board the fhips again* the fleet^in purfuance of the refolutions of a general council of war, weighed anchor on the 12th from the Cul de Sac Marine, and Hood towards the bay of Port St. Pierre, where it arrived on the r5th. The nc- cefTary difpofitiont for landing thie troops being made on the 16th, they were all put on Oiore on the following day, and, after a few inconfiaerable (kirmilhes with the enemy, polTefled themfelves of an eminence which gave them the command of all the adjacent country. On the following day the field-piecc!: were landed ; and on the igtb tbe cnuny buatdcd-a tally on Tome of die out- DiailizodbvGoOglf So' ttVIS AND CRALACTtKSOr ' out-po(ts : they werei however, ,drlv(n back ^frith confider-< able lofs, ana in paiticular that of their commanding officer. Thus far every thing appears to have worn a favourable aCpcfk ; but, as is almt^l uniwerfally the cale in expeditions of this nature, the troops began at tbii time to grow fickly, and in fo great a degree that, at a council of war held on the aoth, it was refolved not to atteirpt the fort, which was a regular fort iticat ion, but to reimbark the troops, and repair with theni to Dominica* ■ where they might get water ; and where, it was hoped, the mortality which prevailed, might be, in fome degree, flopped. Sir Francis himfelf was fo well aware of that popular clamour at home whicit, almoft ever, attends an un- fuccefEful expedition, from what caufe foever its failure may arife, that he infilled each individual member of the council of war fhould give his opinion in writing, that the nation might be informed who were the prticular - advifers of the abandonment of vigoiotts meafures. It appears, that of all the members who compofcd it, none, lir Francis and lieu tenant- colonel Colt excepted, were for ' continuing the attack. The reafons given by thofewho difTenfed from the rear-admiral were, that the enemy were aciually in greater force than the alTailaDts themfclvcs : that of the regular troops fcnt from England one-third, at Lad, of them were Irilh Papilis and little to be relied on : that the failure of fuccefs, were the attack perfevcred in, might mod probably endanger the fafety of all the other iilaiids j as the lofa occafioned by the defeat would reduce the troops to a number incompetent to their de- fence- Thefe confidcrations were very forcibly ui^ed and vehemently preffed by general Coorington himlelf, who, however, as a palliative meafure, and that the charge of having wantonly and timidly abandoned all enterprife might not wholly lay at his door, propofed that he was ready to undertake the conqucft of Dominica, which being lefs able to refill, afforded Itrong probability of fuccefs, provided fir Francis would continue with the fleet fix weeks, or two months lunger on that ftation. To comply with this propofal was totally contrary to the pofitive mftruflions lir Francis had received, which pertniptorily enjoined him to quit the Weft Indies by ■ 2 iht; DolizodbyGoOgle tJAVAL otPtCensot (SRtAt 6Ri*Am. W ttie lafl day of May ; fo that, without farther deliberation, the fleet failed and amved at bominica on the 23d. Having there procured a fmallfupplyofwater.on the Jl-th of May it reached St. Chriftophe^'3) from whence the troopij railed at Barbadoes, being impatient to return home, they were flU foon afterwards difperfed to their feveral iflaodt and ftations. ^ Such was the end of an expedition^ on the fuccefs of, which the greatell expe<£Utions had be«i formed at homej, and in which the lofj by the fword did not exceed ont hundred and twenty men, while, during the fame period^ nearathoiirandeltherabfolutelyfcllmiferableviaimstodifT Cafe, or were rendered incapable of fervicc. Nor Were the common foldiers the only perfons who experienced its; ravage; for in the number of thofe who perilhed art tOj be reckoned colonels FouIIte and Goodwin, and many, other officers of confiderable rank. All cxpeiStations 0^ conqueCl m this part of the world beinz thus fniflrated, fir Francis Wheeler quitft-d the Weft Jndi« the lajter end of May, purfuant to his tnftrudtjons, and arrived at Bofton> after a very expeditious palfage, on the I3l)t of iune, where, prwnpted.aa weH by his own natural incli-, nation for entcrprizt, at by his orders, he propofed to fit William Phipps, who was then governor of the provinc^ of MafTachufets Bayi to iQake an attack on Quebec. The want of a fiifficient land force to co-operate widl^ the fquadron obliged Gr William to decline, much againli, his own wiflies, the attempt. This force it was not pol^ fible to colleft during the time fir Francis was empoweira by his indniiElionB to continue there; and as Campbell obferves, '* this grand deHgn proving every way imprac- ticable,, was dropt, even by Thofi; two men who of a][ others had it tnoh at heart." Sir Francis therefore pre- pared tb return to Europe as expeditiouHy as pOfhble> the men, as foon as thev had in fome degree recovered their health, re-^embarked, and the fquadroa was enabled to fail from Bofton on the 3d of Auguft. Sir Frvicis proceeded to Newfoundland in hopes ot being able to atchieve fome fervice that li^ht palliate, in ifee eyes of his countrymen, thofe difappointments he had hitbeito experienced^ Here he was again difappoioiedr. fefhe found Placeniia> the intended objed of hit attack, .Voi.a;- F ■ -■ bMM*' L„u,i,;™u,Coogli: 8l LIVES AKD CHARACTEKS OT better provided and fortified than he cxpedlcd, and, indeed, fo capable of defence, from its numerous newly-ereflcd batteries, and the number of well difciplined foldiers which were (lationcd to defend them, that the attacic would, in ~all probability, have failed, had it been made with the ut- moft expedition and fpirit. The paufe neceflarily caufed in fir Francis, by that appearance of aFairs, fo different from what he expefled, by no means damped his fpirit, or cooled that warm and eager defire of cffefiing fame- thing that mi"ht tend to his country's advantage, which v/is always his chief purfuit. Unpromirmg as was the. afpcfl he determined not to abandon the cnterprife too hafHly. He called a council of war, in which he laid down a regular and wcll-digefted plan of attack, the moft hazardous and dangerous part of which he himfdf under-' fouk to condu<£t. 'ihe land-ofRcers who were prefent at this council greatly out-numbered the naval-com- nianders, and were decidedly of opinion, the enterprife ■was not only hazardous, but imprafticable to fucceed. Nothing now remained to fir Francis but to lament his ill-fortune, and return to England. Neverthelefs, that he' mtght convince his countrymen how much he wiftied tcf acquire honour to himfelf, and advantage to them, he fent a detachment to St. Picrrcs, with inflru£lions to deftroy a fiftiing fettlemeni, of fome confcquence, cftablifhed there by .the French : a fcrviec which was effc£lually performed, and which, if it was not produflive of any very foHd ad? vantage to Britain, had, at leaft, that fccondary onej of ^flreffing its enemies. " On the 28th of Augufl the fquadron failed from the Bay of BuOs for England ; and that misfortune might altend it even to the lait, it did not reach England till the rSth of Odober, and in fo reduced a Itaie that there were fcarccly men enough in health to navigate the (hips inta port, Campbell thinks proper to obferve, " that, unfor^ liinate as this expedition proved, from beginning to end,' ftj Francis Wheeler, its commander, never fell under the" Icaft cenfurc." In this he is much miftaken. That the cenfurc wa* totally undeferved wc are very ready to infilt on ; yet loud* and numerous were the afperfions thrown out * Tli«re wbo.wera mpll fprwtrdin (heir piofeflions uf loyalry ur- kinr William aicribed ibe ^lure, in round tcrmi, to uutoa and ^ ■ - j:lr, r. DiailizodbvGoOgli: H&VALOtnCBItS Of GREAT BKITAIH. Sj* but againfl hi[ii> pmicnlarly wheti, in the month- of November faUowiog, he was appointed to command the fquadron fent to the Mediterranean : fo that neither the accounts he tranfmitted home, nor the rcprerentations of the Well India colonies, added to the extra£ti of pro- ceedings in the different councils of war, were fuiHcient to acquit him in the opinion of the populace. His fovc-^ reign treated him 'wiui greater Jultice and candour: he felt too much for the misfortunes of a brave man> to add . to them by a capricious, wanton and improper reprehen- (ion, or feeming difapprobation. It was fufiicicnt for that prince if a commander's conduct had defsrvcd, tho' it had not obtained, fuccefs ; and on that ground he failed not to reward it, though minds lefs noble than his own) frequently took occallon to condemn his liberality. Sir Francis therefore, almofl immediately on his arrival at Portfmouth, was promoted to be rear-admiral of the - red, and foon afterwaids to be commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, a prefennent which, as Campbell juRly remarks, he obtained purely by his merit*. The fqua- dron defined for the Streights, which was put under his command in the month of November^ confltted of twenty Ihips of war and frigates t : but fir Francis was liill th*. child of mbformne ; he was detained upwards of a month by contrary winds and the want of ftores, fo that be did not fail till the a7th of December ; and even then is faid, by Lcdiard, to have been obliged to leave behind two or three of his imaller (hips to convoy the fture-lhips and viAuallers> which were deftined to attend him but were~ not then ready to fail. On the,39th he was joined, off* Plymouth, by the Warfpight and Chatham, with eigh- teen 01 twenty mere h ant- Ihips from the fame port bound to the Streights. This palfage was very ^vourable and diffaffefiion; wfailc ilie more moderaie, contented themrdvci wiih (■yin^, (iratkicaVy, thit ihc fleet returned to Englind, having done noibing, and ibit ill eomoiiQdcr hid not found one rcafonible cxcufe foTHotcompleling tbe great plan laid down for Iiim loporfue. Nothing ia mate etf* than to fight battlei, and conduS ,wvlifce opet«iioni, by ' thcRreGde. * But which cercnnly cipofed Km to tmij. + He wai to be jtHned alto by a ^iwdron of Dulcb Ihip* tuder ibc comaaod of vicc4^italCalIettburgh. F 2 M^edi^ L;,u,i,;™u,Goo^It: %. LttES AKD CirAllAeTBRS OF eic[WJirious, for on tho 4th of January the fleet had ad- vanced as far on its voyage as Cape Finifterre ; at whictk time fir Fnuicis detached the (hips bound to Oporto, with si- proper convoy to attend them. Two days afterwards, liRviDg received information that five French (hips of Warwere cruifing between the rock of Li(bon, and Cape St. Vincent, he ordered, with a proper care and attention.. five third and fowth raiei, together with a fire-{hip, to aRend the Li(bon and St. Ubes (hips into thofc parts. After this an event occurred which exoofed hitn to cenfiire, and, U it appcarc, very unju(tly. Tne fafl, as related by: Lediard, is, that on the 13th af January, die i^eet being ifcen near Cape St. Vincent, f»nr large French (hjps were faen at the dof« of ttte evening ; lir Francis inllantfy made the fignalfopapropernumberof hisfliips to chacej but the French fhipi outlliillng thofb which wei^ de- tached in purftrit of them,' and very fbul, thict iteathcr coming on, a fignal was madb for tne (hips to difcontimie the chace, in order that they' might not lofe company with the fleet.. This being ttie lerious and tnicftjte of the conduA aC fir Francis on this occafton, no ptiribn "Who pretends to Hie Icaft candour, can impute to hitnthc, finalldft degree of criminality. To have adcdodterwilewoold have been to have aJtef, imprndcntly. And the louddt of thofc who afie£lcd 16' condemn the reoall of the chacing- (hips, would have been asiong the foremod to condemn the admiral's ra(hn(;l\ hod any unfbrofeen misfortitnE; happened to them in can- fequcntc of (eparafion*. In the morning fix- fail were feen a-llem ; and fir Francis immediately lay-to, that the Diips, if belonging io his fquadron, might gctup with him; or, if eMibies, that he might colTcft bis f6rcE to * NcveKbelcfi. ihere.are fonc itba hfvc liid.^hc iiBpiiml)phdtMi- , darii'y I'o charge thii iinfoiiunJtc.aniJ brave comiModir wiik "calling, bfck ihr ciptiilii lull tt thcj had laifcfl ibe fpirit of their men bf pointing 10 '■■■ " " ■ ' ------ -■-— -*-- - I .nr rcsfon (01 tiughi hii pritaic ialtrufiioQt, J0,£uclf «l,ii."^ " U wai^ha iaid} laA ibcy (hould luff company." But.ihe atcu&twn itrdriucomtt ppoc* gyrit; dnd'fllfc cWge, rc'eeillaf; on tliefiiwlia fiat it.fMib, f,ia> "MacfiociibiDj but ihcir own iif^iut, -. ■-» S iecei»* tbt captiilii uill a» tbcj had laifed (be Ipirit ot their men bf ing to ihc Ayliie enemy andicllii^ ibcm ilicjr went to cbafiifc, ghi. With ititin?' Ta.jb^Lbji enemicirucifiictUy i«Ld, "hi* n (Oald not bill tie afkcd, Toi itWunot in Kumin fagicUy, na* DiailizodbvGoOglc KAVAtOFFlCESS OF GREAT BlITAtN. 8{ tcociv:ruifed in that (tmoa fonie daysth^ylaould endeavour to join the Oiips of war which were expected tp retwn, about that time, from, convoying the Lifbon and $[■ l/bes.d«et. They were all to proceed in company for Cadiz. Tlte veracity and authwiic information of the author pjiJL quoted few have evet doubted ; and from the foregoing account) •ifhich, depending on leftimony of fuch credit, we have Uttie realbn to .dif))elieve, we fuaj-ce.know whether inoft TO admire the zeal and prt^riety of ihe admiral's conduct, or moll to condemQ that) of thofe malicious perfons. who have endeavoured to impofe on the woi'ld a veiy different and unjufl reprefentation of it *. The • " Eigii dayi ruccel!ivc1y were ihe French »elfcl» feen four or G* logeiher aad at vaciou) difloMcs: every Cghi of thcni produced an «re Dover, GOLDING, John,— is known only.as .Jiavi,ng,bc^ ^pointed commander of the Golden Roff, a prize ^akeq j^o.m the Algerincs, in the year 1681. There is fome lealbn, however, to fuppofe he was made fecond lieute- nant of the Triumph as far back as the .year 1673; and that he was the fon of the John Gplding >s^om wc h^\o- already ^ven fome account of •■ ^V?]. I. p. 57. ■ MACDONEL, L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: MAVA.& OFFICVKS OF .GRBAT BKITAIK. 89 MACDONEX, or MACDONALD, lUndaU,— wai the dcicendant of a very anient and .honouiable fiinily Tettlcd in the ngnhctn part of Scotlandj a family which felf both by the magnitude of his piracies, and thccrtieltjr with which they were aliriod invariably attended. Iw had captured fcvcnteen large (hips of different nations, many of them of great value. Eleven of thefc belonged to the En^lifh; againft whwn, when his prifoners, itwaJI obfervable, his barbarity and cruelty was moft particu- larly exercifed. As Toon as the Francis had run in, within guh-fhot of the pirate the latter fired a (hot, which was immediately repeated by one from the caflle, both of them directed at captain Carlifle's Ihip. He immediately fent on fhore to the governor of the caftle to require the reafon of fuch conduA ; and demanded that the pirate Ihould be, as the pomn^n enemy of all mankind, immediately delivered up to him.. An evaftvc anfwer was returned, and captain parfide immc^ately began to make the neceflary prepa- rations to bum the pirate, notwithltandtng he lay under ■ lh» L IN.™ .,., Cookie the very guns of the fort. ■ When the night approached the boats were fctit, manned and armed with a proper quantity of combuflibles and fire-works, to put this rcfo- lution in praSice. This vras done in fo fpiriccd and ef> feflual a manner that thcpixale^was almolt immediately completely in fiames. ' Ine boats having executed this part of their commillion rowed between the fhip and the ^oe, i(i order to Cfit off tlie retreat «f the picatcs -who tai^tt attwwt to moke their slc^e; but this Jiad becR litevioully eScfUd tw aH the creWf except Sow, who vete ^alc«9 prlfonen. Whas the pirate blew up a«jicce of frigiwg titn{>er was carried, by the cvploflon, on board gnetiier ihip which lay ia the ooad, and bvmt ber alfo. -'X\\is-va£ g piece of orovidcntial juQicc, for the btier veliet ^ad beca particularly ierviceable to the plriUe, bf Doi only aUiftu^ hioi to pueen but alfo iupplying him sv^ith fiujiy^oreE of which he Hooi much in want. Captain C^i'lille ha^ti(g fuccef^uUy atchieved thisex-r ck)^ failed ilhe next morning; and, ataihort dilbnce JrcMn 'the h^ibour, difcovcfed a fliip a-eroimd, which, oA BX^Epinifion, proved to be laden wi£ cabks, corda«» f^id oiber naval (lores, |xiq>offily dcfigtied for the equip. 9^cpt ^h1 fupply, pi the piratical veflek, which were, at J^-t^ijte, gqcullome^ to relbrt to St. Thomas's, as to a ra^, tKMh fftfT fibe iale nf their plunder and the Cuffij of ^M^Vailts. Ttus ve;flel. being iikewiCeiet on fiix,cig>*' i^fi Cutille cetvrnfi4 to Nevis without having futlain«d the/foall^n Ids during this di^cuU, and xlai^uous ej4>Q< ^ition. This fiicccji^ was of conTiderablc courequence Ut fjDQioicice, fo|r tho fquV prifouers who were, as has been Steady related, takes frtimon board the pinte, oonfefled that, as part of the plunder acquired during their laflvoy> K4i Ae^ had hecB .lap^ ^t Uie c^e, a very liuge cfaeft of gold-duft, one hundvcd and Afiy wedgep cf filvcr, two ffufidred bagsofooiosd mon«^, besides •late, jcvwls, «le. ptiafit'f t^bj wl a twi£ty of other vaUabie goods, an^ f)§f||ii}adiucG. t^9 4f^nfacliqni relailve ,to. the life of Si^^n f :)riijle» after diii ttipc, havf reached ouc . pIFFQJiP, Sir William, — on rf» ad of Nov«mber l4^-^ appfS^Df^ to feriM ^ Iccopd licuteo^pt of ih« G^^^t- w'> ^ S^^ '^^ Nove{^|Ki in the following L;,u,i,;.du,Goo^It: HAVAL OPFICBKS OF ORtAT FRIT'Ara. ^' jtM he was removed into the fame (Ution on board the- Ccnnirion ; and an the roth of December following into the Mary. Gn the 14th df January 167^-9, he waS pro- niot«ituJ>efirft IicLit«Aancof ttMBrift^ b^ fir John N>^ boroudi,.wha at that lime held thc-chief coipmutd-^^the Streighis. Oii the iiih of April 1681, h» was.macb cafRBUtaf-tlK Lark. Oti the 23d of FelmisrT 16^-4.*, he -«» removed into the Mtirmaid; to which vcneihe was afterward! twice re-commiiGoned, firfl on the ift of June i68i ; and again on. the ift of A{M-il 1685, Onthot, ' lil of- November i686». he wu apBointal to oommaiui'thfrt Pfiflcolxf thirpcriod' vRU almou literalty the evtf of the< Revdntioni aktr which we do not find hire employed, at lAdt during the reign of tin^ William. * Soon dftcr.the accelIiQn.oC9ueen Anne lis waaapfKuntMi. comnuHioosr of the navy rdident at Podiintufh, an olBcei ai ir is weil known, of high honour and mlK^ tnift: This appomtmeni I\ifficiently proves Ijis fotslieF reiirement was voluntaiy, or thai the reafonswhi^caufcd. his jinn-employcneitt were nugaioiy, or uiiju&< He ref ceived, as an additional proof of hit worth, the hQiioariof > kni^lhosd foon after this time. In the year 1705 he was appointed an extra commiflioner of the riaVv ; aadj on tlie ajd of April 1708, governor of Greenwicn holpi- taLi which ,ofEce> it in belicired, he poQeQcd till the time - ofhisdealfa. LIGHTON, Thomas^ — was- appointed lieutenant of the Mary Rofe.on the loth of May 1679, and' of tlic Crown on the 30th of OAober i68t. Oil th* nth of - July 1682, he was promoted, by admiral Herbert, to tha> comoiand of the I'wo Lyons, n prize taken from the Algcrines.- On ilie 1 2th of July 1683, he was removeif into th^ Drake i and, on the 23d of February 1683-4,' into the Lark. This Ihip beiog oAe of the ModiMir*- - new fquadron, a fervke in which he (captain Li^hfon)' -Appears to have bnn en^lwedwgtr fince htf'becAmi H' '* He it ftii, in »n olEJfal papdr beloDging to tie t4mitiitf, not uf hare laken raink ai » poll capiiin iill the tSih of Febhiaiy i683-4> If ibis rt trat; vhith, indeed, we bivp dq reafoa 10 dJIl>diev«, be •(Kid only tavc Ixen appqiiued aftbg coianuodcr df the ijuk. . \ conunutder. _ „,.,,,.,.,Coogli: ^ ttVtS AMD CHAtfACTBKS Of commander. He projeAed an enterprizc *again(l (aOi^^ SalletmefliipsofwarandwhcrvefTcIs, which was crowned with the moft brilliant fucccfs. On the 4th of April * Tbe feDowiog Kcouiit of ilui tltick vti oUdtOf pren in the Guctic, No. *o^. " Ciptua Ligbton in hii mijcftr'i lUp the. Lark, CMfuin MKda- nald in the Grevbouod, widi tbe BMudvcniiirc coamBoded b^ Mr. Fairboroe, her Iieuteniac, Mptain Pnedman beins Gck a-Qiorc, anir- ing on the lerh pill, bffore Mamora. Capt,>in Lighton flood clofe in with (he bar, wd Taw two Ibipi at anchor within (he hitbour, vbich be knew to be Hackonc, admiral of Sallce, and inoiber fliip of war that had not long been tbcrei upon which, and the iafiwtta- tion be received next day from four ChriQiana, and pariicuUtl^ from Tbomn Fhelpi, who elcaped from the Iborc, he refolved to aHempi ibe bumioK al (hem, and commaiiinted ibc fatnc to captain Micdo* nald and Idr. Fairbomoi who having approved thereof, anf agreed to fend ill all (heir hoali under (hecomniiDd fix or tweoni-eighi gum and ai many patararoct. Both wmid have beeo conlpleiely fitted in fifteen or twenty dayi, and there- fore tod on boanl all tbeir ammunition and babilimeon of war, with all tbeir faili, together with the grcaieft part of the filrtiiture aod rig- giag for their new Ibipt buildiog ft Sallec. Tbcfc with rcvcral otberi we refcon fumed io Icit than two hourt, and our men and boati fafe on board agaia. Tbt lofi oa oar fide wat inconfiderable in refpeS to the difficulty and danger of the fervice, having but one. man mortall/ wounded, and five or Gx otfaen flightly hurt. They all behaved tbcm- , felvct with (he greatell courjge and obedience lo ihcir aiders, cfpe- dallyin dcfpiliag alt manner of plunder, ai ihey had beca cautioned , by capuiD Lighton and capuin Macdowld." DolizodbyGoOgle NAVAL ONCERS OF CHEAT BRITAIN. 9^ 1688, be was nSoe comraaiidcr of the Guemfcy. On the ISih of June followine he was removed into th^ Briftol ; and, on the 22d of "December, was appointed by lord Dartmouth who ftil! continued admiral of the 6ect, to comiTiand the St. David. He continued to fervc after the revolution, and was made captain of the Montague. In the month of September 1690, he was prefent at the fiege of Cork; and finding little opportunity was to be cxpeAed pf figiralizing himfelf in his natural and proper line of fervicc, he followed the example of the ever-to-5e lamented duke of Grafton, and many other gallant naval officers, in attachiqg himfelf, as a volunteer, to the de- tachment which was ordered to ftorm a breach made in the eaft part of the wall. It does not appear by the official account given of this tranfadion, that he was among the wounded, fo that althotigh he died on the 9th of Ofiober, it is mod probable this was occalioned by a difcafe induced by fatigue or fome natural caufe. SAINT LOE, George, —was the defcendant of 4 very rclpeflabic family long fettled in the county of Dor- fct. He was appointed lieutenant of the Phcenix by commiffion from tmgCharles the Second, dated^hc 16th of January 1677-8. This ftiip was' lent foon afterwardl^' to the Mediterranean, where he was removed, by admiral Herbert, into the fame (btion on board the Hampfbixe.' He was promoted to the command of the Dartmouth' oo the nth of April 1682; and was re-commiflioned to thd fame fhip on ine 24.1 h of March 1684-5. On the jJ6th of Aiiguft 1688, be was appointed to the PortfmAuth; ' Hf continued in cotiimand after the revolution ; abd in thft year 1690^ was taken by the enemy and carried into Brelt* ' - ' after * Dnnag lii* dptivity be ippnri to h«vc made many flirewd uii ■ferul rcmirki on tbe aeon omy and nanaeemeDt at ibe Fiencb ntvj'. The fellowiog uir^a, from England'] Sifciy, a book prinud m London anno. 1693, ii loo remarkable to be omitted, notwiibOaodinf it hai bce^n already ufcd by Campbell. " While I wajat BTcfl,>'fayinpMinSiintLoe. " IwUaRonifhed at the ei^dition ufed bv ihe Fmcb iu manniog and fitting out ibelt fliipi, vhich, lilt ihen, I thought could be done no where looner than in England, where we liavc ten limu ibe Ihippiog, and confequently ttn timet more feamen than tbcy have in France. But there 1 faw lueniy fail of Ihipj, of about fixcy gUR* CKb, got retdy id twenty daya DolizodbyGoOglt: 96 IIVES AKD CHAXACTISS OF after a very defperaie engagement, in which he was ta fevcrely wounded as to be feveral months before he reco- vered. It does not appear he had any navkl comntanti after this time ; but in the year 1693, which was very foon after his return from captivity, he was appointed an extra- commifli oner of the navy. In 1695 he was made com miHioner-refi dent at Plymouth. He was removed from thenceto Chatham in the year 1703. He continued in that office till the accelTion of George the Firft, when he was involved in the very extcnCve difmiiCon which toolc place altnofl immediately after that event. It is not known at what particular time he died. SCROPE, Adrian, — was the dcfcendant of a very an- tiicnt LincolnQiire family, and nephew of the well-known colonel Adrian Scrope, one of the regicidesi He was appointed lieutenant of the Foirefler in 1672 ; in the foU lowing year he was made fecond lieutenant of the Sovc- le^ j and on the i6th of April 1677, of the Montague. On the 28th of January 1677-81 he was promoted to be firfTlieutenant of the Dreadnought. On the 27lh of April i6S*, he was removed into the Diamond ; and oa the I oth of Januaiy following into the Tyger prize. On the 15th of July 1082, he was promoted, by admiral Her- Tfcrt' cbmmalider-i(i-chief in the Mediterranean, to be cap. tain of the Rqd Lion, a prize taken from the Algerines. Nothing iarther is known of him. SHARPS, Bartholomew, — is known only a« having ?>een appointed captain of the Bonetta Hoop on the 30th ch November i682i STRODDER, George, — was appointed commander of the Cleveland yacht on the 3i(tolOaober 1682. lime: tbejr yicre brought id, ud iht mco difchar^edi ind upon »n Arflcr from' Piiis they^ were careened, keeled up, iigged. viflualled, htaaneii uid out agaio ia tbe faid line, wi(h the gmie^ cifc ima* gtnible. I tikewife Tivrifiiip, of onehundrcdeunj, had allbergun* l*kcD out then in four or live bouri cime, whicb 1 nevei' Taw done in England in twcot/'fow b^tui, ud thi* vUb greu e*fe mi k& COAL, L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: ifAVAL OF71CEKS O? GXEAT BRITAIN. 1683. COAL, Thomas, — was appointed commander of the IfabeUa yacht on the 12th of June 1683. He was twice TecommilliDncd to the famevefTel ; firft, on the 26th of May 1685; and, fecondlv, on the ift of May 1687. On the Ofthof May 168S, ne was made lieutenant of the Green-' wich i and on the 30th of Auguft following was again promoted to the rank of Commander, and appointed to the Pearl. Embracing the caufe of his country, and the intercH of the prince of Orange, he was continued in command by that perfonage, after he afcended the throne, by the title of William the Third. We find him ap- pointed, in the year 1690, to command the Tyger, and lent to the Streights under the command of admiral Killegrew*. Wncn that officer prepared to return to Europe he difpatchcd captain Coal commanding officer or commodore of the convoy fent with the Smyrna fleet. On his return to Europe, , after having fuccefsfully ex- ecuted this fervtce, he was, in the year 1691, difpatchcd with a fi]uadron of Englilh and Dutch (hips, to cniife off the coad of Ireland, for the purpofe of preventing the intrndu&ion of any fupplies tram France for the ufc of James's party in that illand. On this occaflon he rendered all the fervice naturally to be expected from an adlive and intelligent officer ; having, in particular, much contributed to the furrend^ of Limerict, by repeatedly cannonading and dilturbing the enemy's intrenched camp, where the laft remains of their cavalij were flationed ; and alfo by blocking up the port fo eifeSually as to cut off all hopes both of fuccour and retreat in the lall extre- mity. In the month of September 1693, he was ap' pointed to command the Dreadnought, and continued in the fame Iblp many years, mod probably till after t}ie treaty at RyfwJck. jtie continued to be employed during • Vol. I. p. 84i> .Vot.u. a th© L;,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: qS IIVBS AND CHARACTERS OF the remainder of king William's reign, but wc have ncH been able to difcovcr iti what particular (hips or llations. We arc alfo ignorant whether he was appointtd to any (hip after the accellion of ([ueen Anne : fo high, however, vias the edimation in which his fcrvices were held, that he received from that fovereign the honour of knighthood ; and having become, through age and intirmiiies, incapa- ble of fartner fenice, was put on the ftiperannuatcd lift in the year 1706, with a peuiion of 146I. a year. He died on the 19th of December 1710. FISH, Gregory, — is known only as having been ap- pointed, in the year 1683, commander of the Scheedam a prize taken from the Dutch in the former war. GEORGE, John, — was appointed lieutenant of the Portfmouth in 1672. From ihif vclfel he was removed to the fame Ration on board the Forclight on the 27th of Julyi674. He was promoted, on the 29th of May 1677, to be firft lieutenant of the Leopard ; and on the i ith of September, in the following year, to the fame (tation on board the Happy Return. On the 13th of January 1679, he was again made lieutenant of the Leopard. On the 14th of April 1683; he was appointed firft lieutenant of the "Grafton, and on the (7th of December following was promoted to the command of the Deptford ketch. On the 23d of Match 1683-4, he was removed into the Role, after which lime his name docs not occur in the fervice. GRAFTON, Henry, Duke of,— the firft who bore that title. He was the nalnral fon of king Charles the Second, by Barbara Viilicrs, dutchcfs of Cleveland, and was bom on the 2oih of September 1663. He was made a peer of Kngland on (he 16th of Auguft 1672, by the titles of baron of Sudbury, vifcount Iplwich, and earl of Eiifton, all in the couniy of Suffolk; and on the nth of September 1675, was created duke of Grafton, in the county of Northampton. Difcovering great propen- fity to ihc naval fcrvite, he went early in life to fea as s volunteer under fir John Berry ; fo that, having been on the 31ft of Augult 1680, elciicd knight-companion of the moft nobie order of the garter, being then at fea under ' that brave commander, he was obliged to be inftalled by bis proxy, fir Edward V'illiers, knight, alterwards earl of Jeriey. This ceremony took placy on tlic joih of Sep- tember u,Coo^Ii: KAVAl OFFICERS OF ORIAT 'BKITAlK. 99 teTiiber following. On the 15th of December 1681, Be ■was elcfled, by the corporation of the Trinity Houfc, ore of their elder brethren; and on the 30th of the fame month was appointed colonel of the fiWt regiment of fooC guards*. His pr'omifing talents, and forward zeal to difllnguifh himfdf, were fuch as to induce his roya! father to declare him, on the ijth of January 1683-+, when he was not yet twenty years old, Vice-admiral of England. This office is to be confidered at merely honolrary, and of a civil nature, fo that we arc not to be fu'rpiifed It tindiiig him appointed a private captain, iS commander Ofthe Grafton, a third rate of feventy guns, on the l8th of April 16S3. On the 24th of the fame month he was Conftituted admiral and commander-in-chief of his maje- rty's fleet in the Narrow Seas. On the 20th of Oftobef 1684, he was fworn recorder of St. Edmondlbury, in Suf- folk, an honorary, and, as it Ibould feen^, introdu£lory appointment to that more eminent one of lord lietitcnant of the fame county, which he received on the 6th of May l68j. He was alfo invefted, by patent, with the offices of remembrancer of the firfUfruits, ranger of Whittle- btiry-foreft in Northamptonihire, and game-keeper at Newmarket. He was conftituted lord high-confrable of England fnr the coronation of his natural uncle^ king James the Second. When his half brother, Monmouth, fancied in the well, the duke's regiment formed a part of the army, fcnt down under the earl of FereHham, to op- pofe him. His grace accompanied them as their cblonet, and behaved with moft conf^icuous gallantry at th« action in Philips Norton lane, m SomerlctHiire, where he had a very narrow efc^t. The year 16S7, fortns rather • Onzttie, No, i68a. + Whitehall, June So, 1685.—" the esrl of Feverdun, linte* tiim-gencn! of hit majiliy'i fortM, haviDi; notice dwi the rrbcli were goini; to Philips Norton, tnircbctl From Bath on Satnrdi^ liQ, very carlv, wiib iniemion to fill upon ibcir rear j ind for that fatpofe ad- Vmced, wlih a detachment of five hundred foot, commanded hy the duke oFGrafion, and of dra^ooni and horfe-grenadieri, leaving the "itd oF the fbrcei to follow with the cannon. Coming to a lane that Icidt into Philipi Norton he beard fome mulket-fliou, and ibercapon deiiCfaed IwCDty «f the harfogtianh, with the company of foot-in^* 0> Mdierf L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc loo LIVES AND CHARACTEBS O? rather a remarkable epoch in the life of this noblemanv and affords us a (triking proof how far men, with the bcft hearts and intentions, will fometimes fuffer thenifelves to be overcome by Satt^ry and perTuafion. The duke of Somerfet had peremptorily refufed to condufi Ferdinand D'Adda, nuncio from pope Innocent Xlth, to his firfl audience of king James. The duke of Grafton was more pliable, and undertook the office. He was two days afterwards* appointed admiral of the fleet ordered for the Mediterranean : it was firft, however, to convoy Mary Sophia, the betrothed queen of Pedro the Second,, king of Portugal, from Rsttcrdam to Liffaon. The duke arnvcd with the yachts at the Brill, after a very flormy and difagrceaEiIc paffaget on the I2th of July; and having received the queen on ftoard failed for Portugal, liut was obliged, by contrary winds, toput into Plymouth on the 23d of the fame month. The wind coming round to the northward the next day, having hoifted his flag oil board the Ann, he again failed with his royat charge, and arrived fafe at Limon after a pifTage of fcven days. , The duke was received with the highefl honourst. iMdien of ihe duke of Gnrion** rtgimeot, to so inio that lane lO' riifcover what it wai: ihc lane w» Toon aficr lined on both Gdei, wiili >iOTre and foot, behind the hcdg», who made a great fire upon our men. The duke of Gnfioo vrai vrilh them, and went at ftr a) the gate of the lawn with at mucli courage and rcfolution ai can be ex- picffed : but the enenty coatinuing ibcii Gie be retired ; and in bia teircat|was lopi by fame of the rebeli' harfe ; but he paflcd, notwilb* iiaading, ihroueb ihem all."— GaaeltCr Uo. soi7> • On the sihof July. t "Tbe miiAcroTthc king's houlchold wai rtaltainvitebiigiace, the dnke of Grafion, aOmrr, to an apartment provided for him, which hccKCuri^d, uponihc dircQiont hebadffont hi»maj<:fly[ocon- RQue on boarrt. On ihe^th laDint bii grace had bii wihenceof hi» majelly, which w» appuinted ihen at a particulai mark of cDeem, nunc of the furcign mmiKert having been, till after that time, admic- trd to kt (he king. Don Jiun dc Souza waa Tent 10 bring ibc duks in one of ihc kingi baigei, the Puiiuguefc nien of war falullng him ai they patfcd. 'I he duke, Mr. Fiizjaniei wiih lord O'Brien, the r.ommanderc of the fquadion, dnd ihe oihcr gentlemen, landing at the new bridge tnade for the queen, weic condufled k> ibc king'i apart- nit-iit, the gaardi being "I their armi, and ihc druma beating. Hi* Ijiace waa received bv ihc kiiij[ with great kindnefi, and bit compli. menu returned witd large expiclGun), bow feaGbU ibc king wa> of S tfc* L„u,l,.™u,C00gl^ tmVAL OFFICERS OF OKXAT BRfTAIM. lOt as well in confequence of the perfonal refpe A bome to his «hara£ler and rank, as the coniideration of the national compliment paid by the court of Great Britain to that of Pomigal. Having fulfilled the objeft of his miHioq, the .iluke failed with his fquadron for Gibraltar on the t3tb. where, having arrived the beginning of September, ana made a fliort ftay, he -proceeded to Algiers. He was re- ceived with the greateft refpcd and attention, the Dey giving him every alTurance of his wifli to continue in peace and friendlnip withlhe Englift, and prefentine him» among other marts of tils ellecm, with feveral Englifli perfons who had been made prifoners during the former war. This part of his inftruftions* being thus happily and completely fulfilled, he failed on the-dtli of Oftbber in order to execute the remainder. At Tunis, and after- wards at Tripoli, he received the feme honours and met with the fame fuccefs. At Malta, at Mcflina, at Malaga^ and at every other port where the fquadron touched, tiie governors and inhabitants of each place fecmcd to vie .with each piher which fhould moft dilUnguifh ihemfelves ty their attention .and refpe^. His reception fiom Tames on his return, which took place in the month of 'March 1688, was equally flattering with what he had re- ceived from foreign nations during his abfence. He held no command la the fleet fitted cut by James in confequence fie markt of kii mijefty'i friqndlhip, j^rticulai;ly ^n bi^ Jlat obUeing inHance of it, in fending bii grace 10 cooduH (be cjoqcD. Tfae Juke then prefcnring Mr. Fiujamei, the kin? dircElcd hinifeif moic ptnU calarly 10 him, and rcreived »lfo veiy kindly ]oi4 Obrien, tfae com- minilFri of the (hipi, ind the reft that wcic prefenled to hit sitjeJW at the Tame 4ime. from ilicnc« ;he duke t/nt coodufted 19 hit.ai]di> cncci of the queen and infanta ; none being idmitted with bisi there tot Mr. Fiujame* iiul the officer* belonging to the ceremonj' ; which being done, tfai^y were all carried in the lu'ng'i coachea to die pilaec, where there wii a veiy nobk cntcnainmcnt provided, the kin^t fer- fuiU aiiendiDg; and ihe fame ni^t there yitf a peat qoan^iiy of all tarU of frcOi provili9ni (cnt oO board to be dillnliuted among (lie (bipi. The duRe had feveral other invitatiom ^ven him, nil which he eicufed. On the 8ih indahl tbe king"! prefenV were feni, which Verc a fword and rane fct witli diarnondi for tbe dnkc, fodajetrel of yalue for Mr. Fiizjamr^. On the icth fail grace waa condu^d to hii audience! of leave with the fame ccremoniei and Cntcr;laiiimenl."^ Paa. No.«"?8. * To renew }he treiiiet of peace with the fiiKi of Bfi^y.. G3 of l;,u,i,;™u,C.OO^Ic 102 tiyZS ANQ ^HA1LACT£Z3 0? of the hoftile preparations of the prince of Orange. Ani his conduct during the commotions which foon afterw^idc look place, has expofed him to much ccnfure fiom the fiir vouTers of the caufe of the fugitive fovcreign. The duke is faid to haye owned, to lord Dover, that a vifit made by him t6 the fleet, juH before the landing of the prince, was for the exprefs purpofe of influencing the f^veralconitmanders to declare ^tgainfl king James i and that on this expedition, which we tnuft confefs we do not think a very honourable one for a man of his high rank, he was fo Aiccefsful as .to gain the poiiiive piomife of two- thirdsof the commanders. He is, moreover, faidtohave confeffed being privy to Churchill's defign of feizing the perfon of, lord Dartmouth, the admiral of the fleet, an(^ carrying it over immediately to the prince. We do not however think an implicit belief is to be paid to the truth of this pretended confefllon, for it does not appear ever to have been made public till after the dnke's deceafe, or to have been properly confirmed by the future open tellimony of thofc officers with whom he is faid to have tampered. If the confeflion alluded to was really made by the duke of Grafton, he certainly mull have poneflcd a much greater fiiare of hypocrify and deceit, than we can think would ever obfcure fo great, fo galUnt, and fo noble a charaflcf in every other refpeft- On that ground we iiope, for the honour of human nature, lord Dover's report was, at lead, exaggerated. Soon after the landing of the prince of Orange the duke was one of the Proteilant peers, then in London, who, io conjunction with the archbifhops of York and CanterViry, (igned a petition to king James, " that in dtep fifth' of the mtftries of war, iSc. they thought themfebves bound in confclenct, and out ef.tfie duty they owe to God, their hefy religitn, &c. miji humbly to offer to his mgjefty, that, in their optniont, the only vifiile way to preferoe his majrjly and hil kingdom, wauld be the calling a parliament regular and free in alt refptSU." This moderate Itep being inconfiftent with the charadler of a man violent enough at another time to a£t in the manner already defcribed, is a fufficicnt ground to doubt the authenticity of that panicular relation ; as to that part of his condud which loimediately followed, it is much more reconcilcable to the chararfer of a man of hoiiguf than the former would have been, TIic mcafurps 3 of DolizodbyGoOgle KAVAL OFFICERS OF OXEAT BRITAIN. 10} of James had prnved him deaf to every advice, irrecJaimabla et'cn by that moll powerful of all incentives, danger, and totally void of the great principle which ever controuli and inducflces the mind oi a jult prince, the good of his people. The feelings of confanaoinity that prince had himrelf been callous to ; he haJ bereaved of life one nephew, who had unfuccefsfuDy taken arms againll him, and mojt cenainly, by a parity of conduct, would have piirfiied the fame fleps toward the other, had their re- qiedtive fituations been the fame. Little humanity then as the duke had to exped^ from the aficdtion of the uncle to himfelf, yet, not to be deterred by the probability of iLl- fiiccefs and the moll inslorious fate that would have fol-> lowed it, he tirll honelily tiied every moderate means o£ rcprcfeutation, remonftraace and advice: and when thefft were incfiedlual he ficw openly to arms to obtain that feiief for his country, his mild and weaker cffons had' proxed incompetent to procure. His grace, with the lord Churchill, were the firft who nforted to the Ilandard of the prince of Orange. Thi» thty effefted on the rgth of November, at the time king James lay at Salifbury. The early countenartce fhewn to a weak, and infant caiife was repaid by the prince with his moft unlimited confidence ; fo that when James with- drew himfelf, the tirlt time, from Whitehall, the duke was difpatch.cd from the camp, at Henly, to take pofief- fion of Ti'bury Fort with his regiment of foot- guards *,- As a proof of the moderation of tTie duke's principles, and his hope even to the lali, that fome future alteration of cc.iduii might reconcile the people of England to their former mi fgiiided fovereign, when, after the meeting of> the convention it cau.e to be debated in the houfc of peers, '* whether, the throne being vacant, it ought to b© filled up by a regent or a king i " the duke was one of the' forty-nine who voted for a regent. The fenfc of his countrymen was againll him ; and too wife, too honour* able to dilfcnt from, or oppofc the gcnerql wilh, he hefn * The CDininand of ihis rej^inieni ii bii lu have been laken froin faim ju(t befurr, by kin^ James, anil bcQowcd on the eai^ of Lluh- Gelcl. U vui fopn iflerwardt reDored lo bial h]F the prince of Oange. G 4 tated _.c,i,z™..,Coo^Ic 104 LIVES AND CHARACTEKS Of Uted not, d it out. The fleet began to collcfl in the monthof April, and on the 14th, Mitchell, with the ihips under his command, joined fjr.George Rookc, then laying in the Downs. la the month of May he failed for Spittiead and put himfetf under the orders of fir C. Shovel, who commanded there with DiailizodbvGoOglf I«8 I.IVES AND CHAIACTEKS OF with Q flrong fquadron. Shovel appears to have enter- taineil the higheft opinion of his merit, added to the fin-' cercft friendOiip, for among his papers is the draught of a letter, recommending rear-admiral Mitchell in the wannelt terms to Mr. Kathwayt •, that he might fucceed Jieutenant-colonel Davis, who had ju(t before been killed at Namtir, as lieutenant-colonel of one of the marine regiments; a flation, at that day, not incompatible with, or derogatory to the rank of rear-admiral. Sir Cloiidefly' j plain honed recommendation is in Ihefe words : f' He is a pcffon experimentally proved to beavcryunderflanding g cedent, and give ii lliereadtr. " In bit paflage from Holland hii Czarilfa majelly aflird admiral Mitciiell, who gave faliifafloiy inrwen lo all hit mariiime queflroni, the manner in ufe, in rhe Britlfti navy, of lorrtfling Tailon who de- li:rved punilhment j when (he admiral meniioncd kerlhawling, among many othen. Thai prince defired it mi; hi be explained tohim, not bjrwordibut by experimeDi; whieb ihe admiral earufrd, at iioi then having an olTenderwhoiJefervcd it. The Car replied, "taJUmt^mj wn." Bui fir Dflvid informed him, that all on board hit (hip were under the proiefiion of the lawiuf England, and he w-ai accouniahle fcrevery man ihere according to ihofclawt; upon which that monarch pcrGQcd no farther in hii requcfl." '■ The king [William) directed admiral Mitchell to wail oq the Czar to Portfmouin, and put the fleet out 10 fea, which lay at Snithead, on pufpofe to entertain him with a mock eng^ement. which be had feen alfo in Hollaod, bat not fo much to hii fatiibftton ; ii afording hi* najedy fo ^reat plcafure, ibai he declared he thought an Engltlh ad- mini a nuch happiei taan thu a Caar ef Mufcovy," DiailizodbvGoOglc NAVAL OyTlCERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. Ill On the 2d of Jane 1699, fir David was appointed one of the commifli oners for executing the office of lord high admiral; a tlation hecontioiicd to hold till the earl of Pembroke, who had been made firlt commidioner on the 4,th of April 1701, Was folely inveflcd with that high dignity. On the death of fir Fleetwood Shepherd he was appointed gentleman-ulhet of the black rod"; and, after the acceflion of oiicen Anne, and the appointment of prince George of Denmark to the office oflord higji ad- miral, fir David was, on the 20th of May 1702, appointed one of his council, an office difFering only in name from mcommiffioner of the admiralty. During his continu- ance in office all ncgociations with the Dutch, relative to riieir quota, as well as every other naval arrangement with them, appear to have been confided principally to his ma- nagement ; for which piirpofe he jnade repeated voyage* to Holland. He nevcrwcntto fea as a naval commander after convoying the Czar, fo that he never attained an higher rank than that of vice-admiral. He continued one of prince George's council til! the 19th of April 1 708, when his place was fuppHed by the earl of Wemys. Although he never aftcrvrards held any new appointment, • he was, on a change of miniftry, which took place foms time afterwards, charged with a commiflion of much na« tional importance, and fent to Holland to expodulate with the ftatcs-general relative to the deficient ot their quotas, which had long been much complained of, and to take proper mcafurcs to prevent any farther repetition of it during the cpntinuance of the war. This tnift he exe* cuted in a manner highly honourable to hlmfelf, and ad- vantageous to the country. Thus, as ke had ever lived with me character of a man of the flrongeft abilities and rood unfliakcn int^rity, fo did this, the lafl public action of his life, confirm, and^ if poflible, encreue the public eflimation. He died at his feat, called Pope's, in Hertfordfhire, on the iftof June 1710, which was foon after his return to En^and, having executed the commiflion above- related. He was buried in the parilh church of Hatfield in the fame * An office raibu Cogulat Is be Iwld bj ft mval officer. county, . „,.™.,.,Cooglc ill ltVE9 AMD CHAftACTSSS OF county, leaving behind him as fair and honourabTe m charafier as any man could poflibly acquire. The pod of gcntleman-ufher of the black rod he retained till the time of his death, and was Tuccecded by William Oldls, cfq. STANLEY, Edward. — The numerous branches into vhich the original Rork and family of Stanley has been divided, and tne number of its descendants who have at the fame time botne the fame Chriilian name, has rendered it impoffible for us to Itate, with any degree of precilion* that particular one from which this gentleman was de-> fcended: had wc not premifed this, it might probabljr have been thought an omiilion to have patTea him over in the fame filcnce we have been compelled to ufe towards the brave defcendants of families who have been of lets general public note, or have been more carelefs of pre* ferving, and tranfmitting to us the records of their ancellry. We fuppofe him to have been the fnn of Edward Stanley, in thecouniyof Cumberland, efquirefOne of the loyal perlons, feledcd by Charles the Second on his reflo- ration, to be honoured with the new order of knighthood*. He was appointed lieutenant of the Kingsfilher early ia the year 1680, On the lothof Auguft, in the fame year, he was removed, by admiral Herbert, then commander- in-chief in the Mediterranean, to the fame (UtiMl oa board the Adventure. On the 2d of Match l683t> he was * " Knighu of (he Royil Oafc. Thit oi^r vni inxeodcit, by king Charlet (he Second, m a reward (o Tevenl of hii folloven. The knighd wcie lo fanre worn a Hirer medal with a devirc of (be king ia tix o*k, pendan( to a ribbon about their necki ; but it w» (bought proper to lay it aGde leO it might create beau and inirt)oli(iei, mil open tbofe woundt afrelb, which, at thai time, it wat thought prudent fiiould be healed." . Woiiod'* Baronetage, vol. v. p. 36^, -t A cnrioDf ctrcDm(lani;e and difRcnltyoccori in the life of thii gentlcinin. We cannot Cad any other officer, of the n^me of Stanley, lo have been in the fervtce at tiii« time; and wc are ai certain ai we can be of any event that depends on written evidence oF fo remote ■ date, Rrd, that he oever commanded the Mary Rofe ; and, fecondly, ibaihe wai not appointed a commander at all (ill the year 1683: yet, in the Gucire, No. '^79, for the i9(h of I>eeeniber 16S1, ihc toU lowing accouoc it publilhcd, dated Gibnlcar, NoicmbH ilie aoth. D,a,l,;t!dbvG00gli: NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BHITAtK.. IX3 ■fft! adiranced to the commapd of the Bonetta (loop. On the 6th of March 1686-7, he was again appointed a lieu- tenant, and was commifljoned to the ForeGghi. On the 8th of Augull 168B, he was promoted to the command of the fame velTel. ' He continued in the fervice after the revolution, and is faid to have commanded one or two capital Ihips before he wa^appointed to the Viilory, a firll rate; in which ftati«i he died on the 19th of March 1692^ 1684. ■WILD, orWYLD, Baron,— Was appointed lieute- nant of the Oxford on the id of June 1683. On the ajd of February 1684, he waS' promoted to be captain of the Drake, by lord Dartmouth, who was, at that time, commander-in-chief at Tangier. He does not appear to have received any other commiflion till the 25th of Sep- tember 16B8, when he was appointed to the Merlin yacht. We find him, in the month of July 1693, commanding the Ifabella yacht. A Orange and almoin irrcconcileable contradidlion takes place in the different lifts of naval officers> as to the time from whence captain Wild took port. The date we have jlift given is taken from a lift which we have in no inftance, except the prefent, found contradicted ; and its teftlmony is confirmed by an oRicial lift of naval officers prefented to the houfe of commons, according to order, by fir Robert Rich, on the 2d of Fe- " T)i< I4ih indani the Moon, [hit are kc[it on board ibe Maty Rore fiigate comminded by caprain Sianlcy in ihii port, rore with in- tcDiioii to have muiderrd the Eii^lifb, and to have mide ihenir«tvei miflcn of the (hip. They hid alrrady feiicd one of the centlnels be-. ' tween decki, and were ibout falling upon another, when the Englilb, vho were at fupper, took the alarm; atid having armed themfelvei u well ai ihey could on a fuddea, fought ihe Moon, killed and wounded fevcnl, and rupprcfTed the reft. Of the Engliffi five were wounded, •ndcapiain Stanlc)' received a ftnall wound in the head and another ia Idt hand." Vol. II. H bruaiy L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 114 LIVES AIID- CHAKACTERS Or bruary 1698-9. In this, captain Wild ranks,' as has bmf already flated, from the 13(1 of February 1683-4. In other lifts he is faid to have taken rank only from the 24th ' of Dec. 1694, when he was appointed to command the Winchelft'a. This information appears to be confirmed b^ Capt. Edwards, who is admitted on all hands to have ranked* as poft-captain only, from the loth of March 168^901 being the commanding nflRcer of a f^uadron in 1 707, and under whofc orders captain Wild then ferved as & pn- vate captain. It has been neceliitry to make this Ihort digrelTion, left oppofite authorities Oiould be adduced againft us as a proof of error •. In 1695 captain Wild commanded the Northum- berland of ftiveniy guns, one of tlie fliipj, nndi:r (ir CIou- dedy Shovel, employed in the blockade of Dunkirk and bombardment of Calais. In tl.e year 1703 he was tried bv a court-martial held at Portfmoiuh. The particu- lars of the charge we have not bet-n able to infeilitcate : he was, however, honourably ■. cqtiiticd. After this time we meet with nothing relative lo him till the year 1704, when we find him captain of the Firm of fcVenty guns, the' leading fliip on the 'liar-board lack of rear-admiral Byng'sdivifiin, ai the batllcof Malaga, which took place during this year. He actjuired the grcateft honour, his fhip having fuftained greater lofs t than any one of that divifion except the SomerfclJ, who carried a more nu- merous crew, and might therefore be rcafonablyoupcdcd to have a greater number killed and wounded. • We tfinecive the only way CFf tcconciling ihcfe tontradiQioni to be thus. We have already (laicd ihai, previous to the levoluilon, no diHinflion wai made bcivcen tbofe who aie now called maflert and commander), and oihert who ai ibli day rank as pod captains. When the regulation now obfcived uai efliblilhed, fuch offirenaihad been appointed com mandcrs of Ibipi mounting tireniy nuni and up- waidi, afwr ih»( event, took pretedrnce in tlie feiilce before ihofc who had only been appoiiiied 'c~ptnir^i of yacliti and Tniiili fhipi. or Ooopiorwar, prcvidii? lo li ; and ihe ditc of ihe firfl eommiffidn^ ■1 captain, might be retained in the lioiki of ihc admiralty, though a did not, in aaual fcivicr, confrr a piioriiy of command. * Tlie Firme htd twenly-fivc men kilted and fony-cigbt woandfd. ' J The Sotncifei bad ihirty one men killed and fixiy.[«o wounded. From DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL officers of great BRITAIN. II5 From this time we arc again unacquainted with the fervicc in which captain Wild was engaged till the year 1707, when we find him commanding the Hampton Court of feventy guns. In this ihip he was fent com- modore 'of the convoy to the Portugal and Weft India fleet. He had the. misfortune to fall in with the Dun- kirk fquadron, commanded by Monf. Forbin, whoimmc- ' diatcly attacked him ; and, after a very obftinate difpute in which theAcady valour of the Englifh was obliged to yield to the fuperior numbers of the French, fucceeded in capturing two of the Eneliih Jhips of war, and fcvcral of the merchant velTels. The following is^ ihc account pttblilhcd by government of this tranfatlion i and, except In fame few particulars which are pointed out, is admit- ted to be very accurate. " Dungenefs, May 2, ,1707. Her iSajefty's (hips, the Royal Oak, the Grafton, and Hampton Court, with about forty coafters under their convoy, being about fix leagues to the weftward off Beachy, fi:ll in with a French Iqua- dronof ninemenof warof the line, from fifty to fixty guns each, and many privateers from twenty to thirty guns, all of them completely manned. The Grafton was boarded by threemenof war of fifty-lix guns, who carried her after a warm difpute of half an hour. The Hampton Court was attacked by one of the men of war, and afterwards boarded by ^wo others; from which, with great difficulty, Ihe difengaged herfelf ; but, as fhe was bearing away, fell in with two frcfh fhips which (hot away her main-maft and fore-top-mall, ^'he Royal Oak, captain Baron Wild commander, came up to her alliftance, but finding ber en(ign ftruck, made fhe heft of her way to fave him- felf, having eleven feel water in the hold, and being very much fhatiered. In the engagement he had received feveral (hots under water from two French men of war, of fifty and (ifty-iiic guns, that were on board him above half-a-quarter of an hour; but he plied them fo warmly ' So he i) called hy >ll naval binorjini :— yrt, if he ranked u ■ Commandrr oniy from the a^th uf Drccmber 1694, be w» junior 10 both Mjilain Ckmcrui and captain Aaoii, wba irc Taid to hive been under bii orderi. This ii ccrtaialy >9 (Irong a reafon for difcrediling the Uuer daic, at hii afLcrwauJi ictiog tiiuier captain £dwardi ii for icjeQing ibe former. H 3 that L„u,i,;.du,Coogli: Il6 LIVES AND CHARACTERS OR Aat they were forced to (hccr off, not withoMt hting mnch (tifabled. He is lince cnme in hither, and, .by affillancc from fhore, is out of all farther danger. We do not yet know the number of the f;n/?rri*that are fallen into the enemy'* hands, there being good accounts of fevctal llnce the engagement that were fiippofcd to have been taken." This misfortur.c ncLrelfariiy caufed no inconfiderable fnurmur. The board of admiralty was far from being popular ; and fo heavy a lofs gratified the moft violent of its enemies, by furniming frefli materials for clainour and difcontentt,- It was impoflible for malice, ftretched to its utmoft limits, to affix the fliadow of blame on either of the commanders. 'I'wo of them + had 'moft gallantly fuflalncd, at the expencc of their lives, the honour of the commiilion they bore. Commodore Wild had equally dirtinguilhed hit:^.-lf, and with better forinnc. The whole weight of the charge feii on the lord high admiral's ' council; and fell ihe more grievoufly on them, becaufe they were unable to fliift off even a part of it by charging it to any other mifconducl than their own, in nnt providing an efcort fufflcicnt to contend wilh Forbiii's fn^iiadcon § ; * " Bui while the men of war were this engaged, (he lighirfl of the encm)'') Triplet and ihcir privaicers looi, one-and-iucnL)' of tho merchint ftiipj." CimpbcU, vol. 3. p. fS6, + TFiii alfdir itmfc a Tcty great roifc, the mcrchsntj affirming ifial ■here was lime enough fuc tlie adminliy 10 bave acqu>in[|'d eonimo- dorc Wild ihai ibe Dunkirk rqund'ran wn at fea, which, in «ll pro- b*billly, mlghl have ccidblrd hiin lo havt ercapcd ibii miiloTtune. 1 Captains, Aflon and Clememt. ^ " "The prince of Denmark'! council wai very nnhappy in ihe ' whole condud of cruifrrt and convoy). The merchants made heavy coiDpUinti, and not wiihoui reafan. Convoyi were romeiimea de- oied ihem; and when the)' were granted ihejt were often tJelayed be- yond the lime limiicd for ibc mrrchanti to get iheii (hips in readineft: and (he failing ordert were fotniriimcs fcnl them To uiihappilji (but, as many faid, l« ireBchcrouflv) that a French fquadron v.-ai iben ]>:■' ing imheirway to intercept them. Thii w^ii liable lo very ftvc'ie rcfteflioiu; for many of the con»«vs, as well as the lacichant.fliipi,- vcre taken." Ti.idal's Conilmiitlon. ' The account ;^iv(^n by Campbell and olhcrs inatpj ihc coni'oy 10 >avo eonriflcdof 5^ large ftiipjboiind for Potin^al and the Weft Indie*. Campbell informs •!', that commodore Wild formed a line 10 receive Foibiii, into which he drew five of his floutel) merchant Ibipi, that by their alliliancc he mit-hi rominuc the coniefl loiis;cr, fo as to give time for the remainder loefcape. He alfo ndde ibiT the atlion ton* tinned two houn and an hall before the Gral(o;i, cuir.iiiaadcd by Capuiti Ailon, was taken. 3 tlw L„u,i,;.du,Goo^Ic" MAVAL OFFICEKVof GREAT BRITAIN. IfJ tile flrt ngth of which they were well acquainted wifti, and knew alfo to be at Tea. The damages the Royal Oak had fiiflained in this action were hardly repairrfTwhen captain Wild wat, as we have already had occafion to obferve, fent, undcrcaplain£dwards,with the Cumberland, Devonlhire, Chefter and Ruby, to efcoft a very numerous and valu- able fleet of merchant-lhips bound to Lifbon. The very day after they had left port they fell in with the unitra fquadrons of Forbin and M. du Guai Trouin, conlilting of twelve, or, according to fome hiitorians, of fourteea Ibips of the line. The coniefl was fpirited, long and ob- Itinate, but ended at lafi in the capture and dellru:Elion of »ll (he fliips of war, the Royal Oalc excepted. The con- duit of capt. Wild was afterwards invcfligated by a court- - martial, held in the month of Oflober 1 708, which fcn- tenced him to be difmitftd the fervice. This deciiion has been much cenfuied by fomc, and ¥ery ihvidiuully reprefented. Commodore Edwards, fay they, whofe ihip was taken, was honourably acquitted, and declared 10 have done his duty in every rcfpcfl, bolh as a captain and as commodore. But Wild, who had defended his thip fuccefsfully, and preferved it for the future fervice of his country, was ignomlniouily difmitled, and declared incapable of being ever again employed. Thefc farcaftic ebfervations appear to have been very illiberal, ilUfounded %ad unjulK We have already bsrn teflimony to captain Wilde's gallantry in the former aflion •, and fliould, from that partialiiy which involuntarily adheres to fucti condu^, be inclined to think ,as favourably of .him as jullice and truth would permit. But the two latter con- Jiderations certainly foibid us to raife his name unme- ritedly on the ruin of captain Edwards, or to impeach the honour and judgment of that fpecies of court which few have ever dared to condemn, and which, moil proba- bly, iliU fewer have ever had any jult reafon to arraign. )t appears, from a letter written on board the Royal Oik, at Kinfalc, on the 12th of Oflober, which we * " All the Frenth relaiioni do u* ilie juflice 10 own, ihai our eipuint befaivcd extremely well, and thai iheir vifloiy cefi tbem very dear."— — Cai^pbcll, vol. 3. p. i&g. H 3 have D,Q,i,,.du,Goo^li: Il8 U7ES AHD CHARACTERS OP have infertcd in corroboration of our opinion*, that C»p- tain Wild certainly brotc the line, which was the he«- vie(V part of die ci^argc made againfl him, and pii(hed through the French fquadron to fave himfelf, before either thccommodoreorany of his companions had furrendered. At the fame time we feel ourfelves bound to fupport the judgement of the court-martial which tried him, we arc happy in being able to confefs ourfelves perfedly convinced, that this condu£l did not proceed from any ■ Ekind of 3 letter from on boarj ihe Royal Oik, dated Kinfdf , OQober the reih, 170,"' " On (he lolh innant, oFf ihe Deidmin, commodore Edwards, in tbc Cumbctluid, «ii h the Dcvonllilre, CheOer, Rubf and Roya! Oik, difcovercd fouitecn French Chipi, ^vc between Hiiy and fcTcnly Runi, live of fifiy, Ai four of forty fjant. The commodoie made a ngnal for ■ line a bread (Undine under lop (iiU, ihe enemy bearing down upon ut ai iwelvealnoon ; (b« commodoic of ihe French, aftcrhaving paOcd ihc Chcdcr, ai d received her bioadiiiie wiiboui returning To mach ai a mufkcl, made diicftly lo ihe cocimodure. Ai foon as ihey were a breall they both bigan 10 lire, as did rcvrtal oiber of the tne^ my't flirpi, (ad engaged the l.btOer and Ruby j at the fame time a fliip of levetily Run> came along our flar-board quarter endeavouring to board ua. We began 10 iire ; but fiading the enemy would nut come ilong'Gde, gave our Oiip 1 yaw lothe (lat-boaid, upoa whicb hii boli-lprit ciiried away our enliEn-Haff and Umhcii:. Aa he paOird vn|ltr our Hern he (ircd a btoadfide into us; but, ai be (hot alone our lat-hoaid quartet, wc rciumrd it with double and round. In firing alor;; our larbo>rd vrc law he bad ■ dcfign 10 board ui upon the bow, ■tMnhtr fliip of fixty guns Taming up 10 fuilain him. We clapi our hetin hard i liar-board, and came To near thai our boll fpril look hi; ^uarici and carried it away vrith our bead, wbicb brought him lo. As he came up along by our liar- board lidc we gave him af>aia our broad> Cde viib double and round. He immedTaiely look fire, bul it vai exiinguilhed ia five Diinuies ; and aflei (he fmoak wai over we fiw bim on the careen. In lets than an hour 'i f me we fawourrommo- dorc't fotc-mafl, miztn mall I'ld boll-fpril, fbolaway, and aclulleiof five 01 fix Ihipi on board each oihci wi-i out Brinj; oa either Tide. Herapan cur captain, after a (aafvltation viith hit offirtn, thaigit pi to tniavev utjaviii'; tkijhip. The Dev.ijhirc at iht jaiit timt bore dmet ttpon ut, andaiasjoimyttr fiiileaiedtyjevaijiuiqftke eJitn^; upmuhkk me made aU thejail tut cottld. The Uevuolhiie made fail with bet lar board tatki, and we ^larteiing with out (lar-bojid tacb, all the fcven Uil'made after the llevonlhirc, by rcafoii, it i> fuppofed.of "he convoy a-head. At long ai we could lee their hulli (he Dcvonlhirc mainiaineti the fii^hc. We had in this engagement twelve men killed, iwenty-fcvcD dangeroully wounded, and the Uiip very Jnuch damaged." tack- DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL OFFICERS OF GlfEAT PRIT.AIN. 1 19 backwardnefs, or want of perfonal bravery, but merely from an erroiir in judgment, which led him to prefer tlie prcfervation of his own Ihip to falling honourably with the rellof his companions. The fubfequent treatment of him well warrants this de- fence of his conduft- Even tht fov.reign appears to have thought him only inifortiHiale, and not criminal, for he was afterwards employed, and allowed to rank from the yih of Odlobcr 1707, three days before the aiflion toofc place. Even this partial rcmilhonof that femence, which the honour of the court-mariiai had thought fufficiently warranted by the bteash of duty, was afterwards deemed too fmall. a recompence for a man, who had on other occafions behaved fo gallantly; a temporary cenfurc was thought a fufKcient punifhment, inafmiich as though he had erred he was fuppafcd by all to have done it unin- trniionally. In the year 1724 he was reltorcd to the ' rank he had originally held ; in confetjuencc of which he became a rear-admiral. England being at peace with all the world, he continued on naif-pay till the time of his death ; an event which took place on the 25th of Sep- Jembcr 173J. 1685. CROFTS, John, — ^was appointed third lieutenant of the Royal Catherine in 1672 ; in 1673 he was promoted to be fecond lieutenant of the Dunkirk, and in 1 677 xo be firll lieutenant ot the Kingsfilher. On the loth of June 1684, he was appointed 10 the fame llation on board the Svceepftakes ; and on the 23d of March ^684-5, was promoted to the command of ihc Deptford ketch. We hear no morp of him till after the rcvolulion, when we find him commanding the Berkeley Callle, and cm- ?!oycd to convoy a fmall fleet of merchant-fhips to the Veftward. On the 25th of April 1689, he was appointed commander of the St, Paul (ircfliip, and in a (hon tims afterwards was promoted to the command of the Charles H4 ■ gaUey. 'l„u,i,.™u,Coo^Il: 128 llVfiS AND CHARACTIKS OF galley. In the month of September 1690, this ftiip ww one of the fquadron left at Cork, under the dulte of Grafton, to co-operate with the land-forces commanded by the earl of Marlborough- The duke being mortally wounded, and dying on the 9th of Oflober, the chief comrnand devolved upon captain Crofts, as the fenior officer. After the fiirrendcr of Cork the fquadron aflifted at the fiege of Kinfa!e ; which being alfo reduced, captain Crofts, with the fhips, returi^ed to England, and arrive^ Tafe in the Downs on the a7ih of Oflober. We find noi mention made of him after this time. ROBINSON, Robert, — was appointed lieutenant of the Lyon on the I2ih of April 1678. On the 26th of September 1679, he was removed to the fame ftation on boardthe Richmond. On the i7ih of December 1683, he was made fecond HeLitenant of the Grafton, by com- mifiion from lord Darlmouih, On the I4ih of Jiiiy 1685, he was promoted to be captain of the Kingsfiftier ketch. He contintitd to command this veffel till the 26tf^ of September 1688, when he wasappointed captain of th^ Crown. He continued in the fervice during the whole of king William's reign, and commanded fevcral capital fhips, in particular the Monmouth, one of the unfortunate convoy to the Smyrna fleet in the year 1693. 'nrnedi- ately after his return he was promoted to the Suffolk of fcventyguns, a command he held till ihc year 1695, when he was appointed captain of the Lancafter of eighty guns.' After the peace of Ryfwic he appears in a great meafurc to have retired from the line of active fervice. He had a pcnfionof 219 1. person, fettled upon him on the 13th of May r7o2. In 1704. he was appointed a captain' in Greenwich hofpiial; of which place he was afterwards made lieiHcnan I -governor, an office he continued to hold till his death; an event which took place on the i8th of March 1717-18. SPRAGCJE, Thomas, — is, from many concurring circumilances, fuppofed to have been the fon of the well- known fir Edward Spragge • ; but we are not fufficientiy warranted in aflcrting this as a pofitive fafl. He was appointed lieutenant of the Centurion on the 22d of Ja- • See Vol. I. p. 64. L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: KAVAL 0FFICEK8 OT G&XAT HllMltl. ISt fiutry 1677-8; of the Dartmouth on the 8th of April l682j and of the Swan Prize on the 17th of September 1683. On the 3ii of April 1685, he was promoted, by king Iamc5, to the command of the Drake. It is pro- .^ble he died foon afterwards j or that, when the revolu- tion took, place, he retired from the fervicc, as we find no farther mention made of him. TAYLOR, John,— is known only as having been appoiiited commander of the Griffin in the ycu 1685. 1686, BERKELEY, John, Loud Berkeley of Stratton,—wa« |he fecond fo" of fir J. Berkeley •, the conftant and loyal adherent of Charles the Firft, and no lefs faithful follower of Charles the Second when in exile. His family was of the greate^ antiquity, being a branch from the ancient barons of Berkeley, of Berkeley caftic, who were dc- fcended from Robert Fitzharding, a pcrfonage cf confi- derablc note at the time of the conqucft. The loyalty and attachment of the fathur to the caufe of his fovereign^ and the fervice of his country, appears to have defccndc^ without the fmallell dirainmion, to his fons. Charies, rhe eldeft, having entered into the fea-fervice, fell an- un>. fortunate viflim to the fmall poxt, as we have alreaidy related. Onhisdeceafe the title defcendcdtohisyounger brother, John, of whom we are about to fpeak. He -vfas appointed firll lieutenant of the Briftol on the 14th' of April 168^, and promoted to the command of the Charles galley on the gih of July i686. He failed foon after- wards to the Mediterranean, where he continued till the iQonth of May 1688. Soon after his return from thence • AndChrini»B, daughter of Gr Andrew Piccard, preGdem of the ZiH Indii company. «hc waj the widow of Henry, lord K^afingtoo, ton of Hrnry, eitl of HoUuuL ^ t Seepages/. he LiiQiiizcduyGoogli: E22 LIVES ASD CHARACTERS or he was appointed* captain of the Montague. On the ayih of November 1688, he received a commiflion from lord Dartmouth, at that time adnural of the fleety to com- mand the Edgar. Though he had never (hewn any, even the fmallefl iymptoms of didoyalty or difalFedlion to king James, while he continued his legal fovereign ; yet fo high was the opinion entertained of his integrity and true zeal for his country's real welfare, that at that lime of general, didruft and confulion, which immediately preceded the' Settlement of government, after the landing of the prince of Orange, he was, on the 14th of December, appointed to i£t as rear-admiral of the fleet then under the command of the lord Dartmouth. This truft he faithfully execut- ed, and without ever incurring cenfure, even from the mod violent partizans of the exiled fugitive James. Hii rank, his character, and the general ellimation in which he was held, would have been recommendations too pow- erful to be difregarded by William, had the hopes of his rifmg abilities and forward gallantry been lefs Duiguine than they really were. He was confequenlly appointed rear-admiral of the red, and ferved in that ranK on board the fleet fitted out, during the cnfujng fummer, to oppofe the mighty arma- ment of Louiithf Fourteenth. When the heavier fliips were brought into port for the winter, lord Berkeley was detached,by thcearlofTorrington,'inlhe month of Oflo- ber, with a ftrong fquadron to the weflward, to cruife at the entrance of the Channel. He continued on this fervice 9nd flation, occafioiially putting; into Plymouth to recruit his water and provifions, till the middle of January, when he returned to Spilhead. He does not appear to have held any command after this lime till the yejr 1692-3, when he was, on the 8th of February, promoted to be vlcc- admrral of the blue, and very fhorily afier, to be vice-ad- miral of the red. He hoifled his flag, flrd on board the Neptune of ninety guns; and afterwards on board the Viclory, a firft rate ; when on the death of fir John Alhby, (in the I2th of July 1693, he was promoted to fucceed * On the joih of Au^uit >68B. . ,l,z<,i:,.,G00glf NAVAL OPFICESS OP GKEAT BKITAIH. tZ} him as admiral of the blue. He ferved in that capacity during the remainder of the year 1693, under the joint- admirals KiHegrewr, Delaval and Shovel. We liave al- ready had too many bccaftons to lament that little is to be recorded of this year's naval hiflory but misfortune. In the general ccnfure induced by it lord Berkeley had, indeed, the happinefs not to be involved ^ but at the fame lime'his a£live fpirit had no opportunity of expanding itfclf to the advantage and feryice of his country. In the enfuing year the firll projeSed operation of the fleet, whi^h was underthe command of Rullcl, was the at- tack on Bret) ; an attempt ralhly undertaken, and, as might naturally have been forefeen, unfortunate. The execution of it was committed to lord Berkeley", with a very ftrorg divifion. But the force of the enemy, the ftrength of thcit fortifications, and the treachery of Tome pcrfons at home, rendered abortive the utmoft efforts of gallantry on tho part of the Englifh; and, by giving the French timeljr mticCat what point the meJitated blowfras to be Ilruck, afforded them every opportunity of providing for their defence. No part, however, of that general difcontent ■which ill-fuccels, particularly in an expedition of fuch magnitude never fails to excite, fell on lord Berkeley. The voice of the populace, which fometimcs afFedls an inability of diflinguilhing between criminality and mif- fortune,on tlys occafion becamecompallionate, and divided its forrows between the fate of the brave general, who fell a viflim to the conteft, and the difappointment of the no lefs gallant admiral who faw, but could not prevent itt. The • Who had hoided his Bag on boaid the Queen. f The following account of thii tiaafiQioD wai publillied bj auiburtly. . " On ihc 6ih innant ihe lord Berkeley, sdminl of ibe blue, with the r<]iiadron under his commind, confining of twcniv-nlne fhipi of the line, Enalilh ind I^uich, bc ir.gsKs ind hoRib-keiehes, madA Ulhant illand -, and on the 71!] flood iiiio Camaict Bay: the enemy (who had alarmed ihe coiiwry by firing many gutii and making great firei all nigbl, played ibeir bombi >i m from iivefcveral b~tieriea round ihc bay, where we anchored, but molt of them fell fliori ; and ihofe ihu fell among the Ifaipi did not take place. On ibc 6th we had > very thick fog : wncn it cleared up |hc enemy began to pli/ ibeir D,Q,i,;.du,GoogIt: 124- LIVES AND CHARACTERS 07 The fleet returned into port immediately after this mf r. fortune ; but as i'oon as ever the (tock of ammunition at*d provilioiis was recruited. Tailed on an expedition fimi/ar to the former, againft Ditppe " and Havre de Grace. Very confiderabie mifchief was done to the enemy, who took all poflible pains to rep relent their lofs as trivia), in- fignificant, and by no means equal to the expence incui- red by the EngiiOi in making the attackt. Lord fcombt igiin, hut did ui no dimage. About feven in the morning, iccordina lo (he leruluiion (bit Hid btcn taken n i touncil (^ war, the CipMl wu made for the foUieis to go into ihe boiti and fmall veETcli; kud >l ibc bxaa time ibc marijuii o( Carmarthen was ordered, Vilh fcven men of war, to the bottom of Camaret Bay, lo baiter a fort and two balterieton the well lide of it, and to cover our landing. About noon lieulenant ecneral Talmalh went lowirda the fliorc with the f cd thai half the town wai then burnt and beat down, and that by (he neil morning the rell would be likcwife in aQiei. Several iroopt of tiorfe were leen on the hilli on each fide ihe town. The enemy fired on ibc ttth at Icall fifteen hundicd {hot and Ihellt, rnoH of wbicb vent over ibe bom b-vc (Tell, fo that there were not above four or Eve men killed and wounded. A fbell fell into one of the homb-ketchci aind burft upon the deck; but ihc men had time to leap over-board and were all faved. The veifd did not receive much damage." f The fuccefs of thii attack, as well ai all ihofc of a fimifar nature ■ude during thii war upon iIie COaH of Fi^ncr, have been vatiouHy re- ' picliciucd DiailizodbvGoOglf NAVAL OFFICERS O? GBBATBIITAIK. 12J ■ ■i-ordBerkeleyrciurnedtoPoitfinouthonthca6lhofJiiIj', and the Aeci having rctitted the inconfiderable damage it had fufbiined prcrcnted by different hifloriuH, who. hive omlited to produce ibeir liilhorilic) for differing from (bofc rcladom publiflicd >i ihc lime under ibe fanflion of governmeiil. Thrfe »cC9unn hiving, we be- lieve, never been repriiiird.aj ihcy are now beCojuc exceeding fcarce we hjveihoughiit ncccfrirynifubjoiQlhem lo the lives of tile diffcr- enl commindcrt-in-thicf of fhcle fevtr»l expediiion*, »dding i» their icfpeflive liven (rparaie aecoiini of (he ir.erils of ibofe oScen wbo more particularly dilliaguiibed tliemfclve* at thofe Bmei. « From on board their inajeflies (hip the Queen, in Havre ie Grace Ro4d, July 17. " The bomb] we fired at Dieppe bad all the cITca ihat eoutJ b« expcBrd. Tlic brc continued the i^ib with great violence ; the night following two migazinei blew up, in one of which there could not be left than four or five hundred barrelt of powder, ai we judged by the report: we believe, like wife thalfevcral Dii pi were burnt and blown up, we'hearing fome gum go off firll, and prefentiy after, feveral blowa. One of ihefa fhipl wai, probably, a privateer, wliicb was chafed in on the 19th I on tbci4tfa wefailed'from Dieppe,!! which lime the whole (Own lay in oibei, tbere being hatdlya houle left flandiiig. On the 1 5tb, in (he afieraoon, we came b the vconvenientlyeould. Tbebomb-vcfrtle being ptace'd in their nationt with feveral fm.ill frigatei, a great many buaii were taanned with fuldieii and feameo and llaiioiied near ihem, fur their fecurity againft any aitempt of the enemy iu the night. We began lu pliy our bombi yelterday, about four in the afternoon, and by ci^ial night ihcy bt Havre de Grace on fire in feveral placei. The enemy all ibii time fired a great many fhoi and hombi from the fliore, DioD of which went over ui : one IfactI unfnilunately fillinc in the Ctituda bomb-ketch bitw it up, but the men were all (iaved except thirteen. Captain Willfhire, the commander, wai very tnuch burl ;' and captain Silver had hit leg broke. Bcfiilea thii accident we bad oiM man killfd, which wai by a cannon (hot, and two or three vounded. The earl of MKclei6eld and lord fierfceiey went in their pinnacei to vilii the bomb veffelt and to encourage the tnen, and weie on board one of them, called the Flredrake, when the Giiuada blew up near hec. This morning, it blowing very frelh, we ceaf*d Brin;;; hilt intend lo begio again at foon at the weather It better, We reckon thai half of the town i> already defiroyed, with feveral of the Slips in the harbour, at the entrance whereof the enemy funk two, to hinder our going iuj and fome Oiipi funk themfctvea to prevent being burnt." "Whitehall, _ IN.™ .., Google 126 tlVES AND CHAlTACTERS OF fiinained m the late encounters, failed for the Downs meditating farther mifchief. Lord Berkcfcy himfelf re- paired tu London to concert, and agree on fuch mcafurcs as ihould appear, on confultation, iiiofl likely to injure^ and dillrefs the enemy. Dunlcirk was Br(i mentioned, but was foon afterwards poilponed incfJinpliancc with the , Opinions of the engineers and'pilots, that the feafon was too far advanced. An attempt on Calais was next pro- pofed; and lord Berkeley repaired to the fleet about the middle of Aitgiill to carry it into execution. He failed on the 19th ; but the wind being contrary, and encreafing almoll to a tenipcft, he was obligeil to return into the Downs the fame evening. At a fubfeqiient council of war, in which,thc pilots who were to tondud the fliips in, and the engineers who were to dirci3 the attack, were confulted, it was agreed to be impracticable at that ad- vanced feafon of the year : fo that the admiral feeing no profpedl of any farther enterprize during the remainder of that feafon, repaired to London on the 27th of the . " Whiichall, July ihe sSiIi. Since the Iciicn from lord Bcrke- lev, dated ibe i/th, fiom Hivrede Grace, the folloiring iccouut hu been received. " It blew vcrf hatd all 'fiat diy and ilic cighi fnilowiTiE. The iSih, lovf ard) even! nj;, ihe vraiber vrii calmer, and ihe bomD-vflTeli «arped in 1* near ai thty could to the town, being coveted by a eicai many boati miitned with (eameti tnd foldiert: the enetny fired all ihe vhile ^om iheir batteries on the fliote, but without doing ui my da- mage. The night wai fpenl in ihrowing in about two hundred and fifty borobi j and they had fired tnote but (hat ihc wind grew very bigh, which obliged (bem to fland off agaiD in (be morning. In the QJght (hey faw fcveral lirei in the lown; and onepardculatly, which, by (he great blaze and (be iime it lafted, they believed to be a magi- (ine of Aaval floiei. The eitemy funli fix (hips at ibe mouth of (be tiarhour. Above one half of the lown waf dcltroyed, and the rell much (hatieredby ihe botobt. On the sill lord Berkeley failed fion Havre de Grace towardi La Hogue and Cbeibourg, alarming the enclhy ■tl along iheir coaft. they hrtd ■ gyeai many guiia, and ma6e firci on (be Ihore, 10 give notice of (he ficel) approach. Lord Berkeley being infoiincd a French fiigate and four or live merchant Ihipi lay ■I La Hogue, be detached iwo or three 1igh( ftigitcs and i Rrclhip to dcBroy them; but before ihey could arrive, the French Djips bad got away to the weftward. On the a^tb, in the evening, loid Berkeley came ic an anchor al Si. Hclcn't." fame LiiQiiizcduyGoogli: NAVAL OPnCEKS OF GREAT BRITAIN. tij fame month, refigning the commaDd to fir Clomleflr Shovell •- ■ Lord Berkeley, in 1695, hoifted his flag on board the Sbrewllmry, at Portfmouth, on the lath of June. The Dutch ihips, under lieutenant-admirai Allemonde, toge- ther with the bnmb-ketches and fmali velTels, joined him at Spilhead on the i6lh ; and on the 29th the whole fleet Itood over to the coall of France to renew the depreda- tions of the former year. St. Maloe's and Granville bf ing the, firft objects of his furjr t, he arrived before them on the • Who received poCiive orde/i, in the mnmh of September, to make ihc aliempt on Dunkirk; an aiicnipt which filled fofely throuati the mifcaoduft uf ibe pilots, and without cbe fmglkll reproach to ibe brave comtnandcr who wu feot on fo fruitlcfi an undertaking. t •' On Thurfday, the 4th innint, lord Berkeley, with the Seet ' under his command, catne 10 an anchor before Si. MjIo ; and it being lefolved immrdiaiely 10 bombard ibe fori on (he Quince Rock to the wcdward, and the battery ihc enemy bad nifed 10 the eaQward on Point Danbour, between which ii the chMinel to tbe town, cutonel Kicharda was ordered to fend the three Engti&i and two Dutch bomb- velieli to tbe Quince, and the other four Dutch velTeli to the Point Danbour, which accordingly waidone, mlh good fucceb, againfl ih«- Quince, they firini; fcver^ bombt into it. " Friday tbe jth, every thing being ready to attack tbe tmrn, lord Berkeley, at four in the mornirt);, made the lignal ; upon w)iich captain Benbow, with the Englilb and Dutch fri^aieiappointed to enard the bomb-vefTeli from the attempts of the French galHca and boat!, flood into the channel leading 10 the town, and came lo aa anchor within ihc Halflidei Kock, which ii about a mite an half from the town; at the fame time colonel Richards, with nine Englilti bomb), anchored between captain Benbow and the town, and by Cx o'clock began 10 bombard. All this while the enemy Rred very warmly fiom the fhore ; 'and, conndering the balleries on the Gr^al »nd Little Bay, lile Danbour, Fun Vauban, Fori Royal, Quince, Btc, lay all round ui, the damage we received in going in, wu ioconGder. able. Their fialteys and boat* were moft Iroublekitne 10 at, in taking the opportunity of the lidej, and rowing fo neaV ai to gall the line oT bomb (hips. About eight o'clock a Ere broke out 10 the eallward of the town, which fmoaked in fevcral places. Lord Berkeley, adnii' ral Allemonde and flr Cloudelley Shovel, came in their boats toencou* rage our men, and were v try well pleafed wiib the difpafitton of our bombardment, Ooe Eiiglifti and one Dutch firefbip atncked the Quinee Kock, anil lay fu well to that they fci fi.c to the wooden fort at the top of it ; which continued about two houri, and divened ihem for that time. About four in the afternoon another great lire broke out 10 the wellward of the town ; and we could eaCIy perceive J,r,l,z<»in.,G00gk' tsk ttTIS AKD CHAtACTZXS Or the 4th of July; and having completely execufci! his cy s^hich they (bought it fuflicienily fccurcd againA any fuch altcmpt, have not been able lo prevent the dciliudion of a great part of ihe town, and ihe rell froio being very much fhaitercd."— — Gaiclie, No. 3096. * " Anenprefi arrived al Whitehall on the 4lh of AuguO, from lord Berkeley, and brought an account that he had been, with the Seet under hii command, before Dunkirk. On ihe ill inOant he fent in -ihc homb-)ictches, with fomc firc-Ihipi and inachinc-vcfrels, wilh fe- veral light filgaiel and bnginlioes, to pioie£l them againlt the enein>r* DiailizodbvGoOgli: MAVAL otncna of ckxat skitaii). 139 already very fully accounted for, and explained in the Ilfi! of fir Clouddley Shovel. But smidft we long crimina- tion and recrimination which took place in confequeace of it, not the fmalleft imputation of neglcft, or mifcon* thifl, yiras ever attached to lord Berkeley, or indeed inr of the naval officers who were prefent ar it. Foilea at Dunkirk, the vengeance of the Engllfli was next direfied tb Ctiais*, where the niifchief done to the enemy was much greater, and tha't fullatned by the Englifli and Dutch much lighter, than in the former attempt. The feafoa being thought too far advanced to warrant an attack on any othrr of the enemy's ports, the fleet returned into the balf-cilliei and other armed boiu, «f wluch iher bad • gtai manv. : lOd (trsnlol The MIDI b-veffel) coniintied firlm from nine in ibe aomin* till five in tb* tveaicw : lOd ttvtat of ihctr bomb* fiilt on the rifbink, i the ficr-hcMtt, which iH conSdcnUe dmwe. Three of iheir gal- lej'i veie ftink; but thccsenyliiviDgfeciiredifaerifliHiktndweMe* fortt with pilei, koont, chaiat, and flaatisg ptmloooi mauata4 will* cannon, ibemxhine-tclTclicoutil not come near eooogh lobare aajr cAd ) wbcfcitpon the Ggnal wu made tot tbe friptta and bon^ veflela to coaie pS, aa thcj did, haviiM bebncd ibemMvea tmnmr^ dinarv well ihMa|hpui dui aAMu. Toe nmbiiied fijuadiaa racaivai very little daaiigc except in ibe loft of a Dutch friptc, tfbicb. i* tuminz oui, ran aground and wat Gted by tbe enemy ; the men baV' inx firll left her." Gazette, No. gio*. * " On rbe t6ih of Angvft lord Bcrkelef, with the fleet diider bii OMimMd, 0M»e an m ajxfcor bcfon Cataia ; hit it proved toe (aim for tbc bawb-veDeli to Aand in, that nening. On tfae 17^ about eleven in ibe motnii^ colonel Richardi ancbortd, with xk^■ (aid bomb-vcirclt, in three ^thorn water, md bepti te bombard iba (Own, which by otte o'clock wn on fire iu (evenl placca. About ibU line the encnnei hair.gillin, apMJ other trmed mHela, to the aambcr of twenty caMe our, and (Wod clofe andet tbctr «wK feorc, to tha eaftward, ibiakitig lu anaoy our line of botah Mm ) bat laid Ber- keley fending In tbc biipminei, and (cvertl fnall veScla, ihcy Ml the euf»v into fucb confulton tfait ihcv >ot back, with mnch ddfi- nliy, to the pier headi. Ahoat twoo'ciock^oeof oitrbonba felfiic' to their majtannc' on the liAaak, which oecafianed a ((real diferder aawsg then : aad after tbii tfaay never fired either ibetr canntM or nortan, of wliich the^ bad fEveral bfttlcrie*. We cootiniKd to throw bombt till live in the erening, when we bad cipendcd fis hundred IVIlt, which did fach execution th» we are confident tbc town ti very much ruined. Our bombardiera behaved ibemrelvet exiremcl]' well on thii occtGon. Our lofi ii very fiaall. Captiiq Olbornt, conmander of the Aldbonugh ketch, waa killed by a cn- noD fiiot fiom tbe ciicni}'i galliet." -iGaacKc, No. B^oj. Vol. II. I Downs L„u„,.™o,Coo^Ii: ^ja LtVES ANA CHARACTERS er. Downs on the 2oth of Augull. Lord Berkeley (InMrfc his 3ag and went on Ihorc, at Dover, on the i8th, leaving the command with fir Ciuudcflcy Shovel. The French government having projedlcd the invafion of England, made every preparation for carrying it into execution eaily in the fpring. Twenty thou land foldieis were marched, with the utmoll fecrecy, from the neareft, garrifons to the Tea coall. At Dunkirk, Calais, and the adjacent ports, sootranfport vetfels were colleilcd to con- vey them, with their nccclT^ry Aorea and equipage ; and a (trong Iquadron of [7 large {Kips of war, to be com- manded by the marquisof Nefmono and the celebrated John du Bart, had rcndczvouri:d at Dunkirk to efcort them. To cnuntera£l this menaced ruin a fleet of fifty Hiips of the line, Englifli and Dutch, were collc^cd with the ut- moft expedition, ■and Cent to Tea uoder the command of admiral Ruflel, lord Berkeley, fir CJoudefley Shovel, and vice-admiral Aitmer, at a time the French thought it inipofTibte for the combined powers to have colleded ten ihips. This fleet put to fea the latter end of February, arid extended itfclf in a line from Dunkirk 10 Boulogne, CDmplctely blocking up the intended armament, and tatally frulhating the mighty preparations, and threats of the French. ' Nothing worrit commemorating happened till the month of May, when fir Geo^ Rooke took the chief command of the fleet, and put to fea in order to intercept the Toolon fqoadron, which was fiippufed to be then on its patTage from Bred*. Lord Berkeley continued to cbmiiiand tlie blue fquadron under him ; and when lir Qeoigp was, towards the end of the fame month, fum- mooed to Lcndon to attet»f his duty at the board, as a com itiifli oner of the admiralty, lurd Berkeley wjs left admiral of the flcett. Apropofal was made by firGeorge, on his arrival at the board, to attempt the deltrutSion of a conftderable number, (fome fay feventy] French Ihips of war, which were then laying in Camaret Bay, It is faid to have been long oppofed by many doubts of its fncccfs, • Vol. I. p. 410. t Wiih the privilege of weiring die union Si£, which be acconl- uijiy hoiEled 90 board liu Bfiuuaia, DiailizodbvGoOglf NAVAL OVflCBftS'OF OSEAT BKirAIN. l^t on the part of miniftry ; and, at lift,' pnmooncfd, by a council of war, imprafticBble. It was afterwards debated in what manner the fleet could be employed mod conducive to the fervice of the country ; -when itwas agreed) in cafe intelligence was not received that the French weio difarming their (hips, to ftrelch over to the coaft of France, and cruife for fourteen or fifteen days, becaUfc though thff tombined fleet Ihould even not be able to deftroy them,' yet it might create iiHich aiMm, and <»ufeconfiderablc de- tachments to be drawn fromtheanny in Flanders, which might give the allied army therea decided fuperiority; - In confequencc of this refohition lord Berkeley put to (ea the middle; of June, and attempted to turn down Channel with a contrary wind ; but It encrealing to a gale at W.S.W. hewasobliged-toputintoTorbay. Onthe S4th, the mtather bectnning more moderate, he again failed*; and after contending with contrary winds for fome'da'ys, at l*(lfljciiilMi,i made tlKmblRi mallen of ^wb^'iOaDd.uidhutatitbe lonNi ^ U«vp(. Tbey did (be Tidm tinoB tbeLiidndoCJfodick*, I'dejUWand brought oiTraucfa cat- tle fiom boih. Tliere Nup'on cuih oT fhefc iflands a Fort, viih a drcp dinrtianJ dotibtcwall.'iMo which the fnbjbitanii and fume foldlcrt reiired-; bat ihtfe-fW-iMcaliana nor hiiidtring lu ftam doing all ihtf BtifiAkf trc tkMgbirfilvire (kid not Mttiiipi tfaem." ' i.:o.'., - .; ..,.,.. GaaeUe, iNp. 8*03,' ■ .' -;. ;j- la con- L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ic tit tnrtS AMD CKAXACTflt OV coofapMaceof '^itive wden htm kiii| WiUiain^ ren- 4eitd the fleet incapable of attenptintE any thing &vtfaer. Lord Berkeley tteivfore returned to Torluy on the soth : irhile he }aj there he received mftntdions to repair Jt> Spithead, Wfwfe he £ifely anived on the 3iil of Auguft. lite bn^er Atipt wcie now ordered iiH» port for the vuter, and kefon At tine of their ie<«<)uip]neBt fe- «inied, » ph«ify and fewer attacked thii bmm aad tmJy noble lord and p«t a period to his suitd exigence, oo ihslTthDf February 1696.7. A« the tuae <^ his dcceafe, he wai admiral of the flact, having never religaed tbat afpoiotment ; cDfenal of the (ecoad raiment of marines ; groom of the ttaie t» hm n^al hiefancrs prioca C>eor^, aod firft gentleoMn of hia bad^diamber. He mamed Jane, dan^r of fir Jaba Temple, (^ Eaft Sheen, m the county of nnry, hf ivihen he left one daug^M^i who died an iniant. We have ftanely aa inlkuict in the annals of naval hiftoty of any «flfc«M MtaSaing fo high a lank at fo early ■n age : a aank ha oBMnbrnwa {or a lenea of y«an> with a moft u^lemilhHl nfDiatio«r at a tins men mifcar- riagM Woe fieqaeat, and Aa «a#tfarved r^rooch oficn attadied to ihem ateeffivs. At the timaof h» deccafa be was not moK than tidnjfiau ycara of a^ ^^3S eight cf irtucbhehadbonlheofBc««f«nadfninl. Tnc Ser- vices iawhidi be wat Ohieiyeartplaycd were of a particu- lar noauM, newalaoAiii pndtM; lod, previoiu t« thia tune, little liadeiftaad. TneMinwhichbcwaeaigiiged ■was the moft it^oMiMte ; yet the ill-&icec& Awped aac his ardour^ aar made him diffident of futuee viaoriea. Nothing is more common than to charge a want of fac- cefs to mifcoodud, bccaufe nothing more aBeviatet diat particular wedtncft an^ Atbefii ofthe homan mind in- (luced by defeat ; yet the nurwia of Canoarthea. who was ordend upon die attack of Camaret Fort, paid him» in bis account-of the cKpedhien, the highefl OMnplimeatt in the arrangemerM tte mtiie, aad the great abiuty wiili which he condoAed the fervice. Although it is not at aR to the puraofe to enquire whether the fucccfs atteDdtng Ibofe kind pf eapoditwiM) in which be wn> engaged* wa» equivalent to the ezpeooe attcadii^ them ; yet w« oaanot help obferving the advantages accruing from them were ccmialj u™i,z.du.,Coogli: NATAL orrtcsn or wtiAT-ntTAin. ijj certainly of mucli grciKr national moment than the enemy would admit, or the opponents of adminiAntion were willing to believe. Among the foremoft, in tht bonr of danger, he encouraged ifaole whom he was fent to command, by his perfonal ^ample ; he had, on every oc- ca£on, the tnppinefs of rimUtg^all that fortitude, joined to piuiiJenoe and ability, oxild poflibly hope for, and died with the jtift rcpntation of a brave, ciperienced, and a great coaKnandcr, at an age when few have had rnffcacot ts^ fieacc or opportuBit)' to ac^tre the ihiallejl rcpiHaUoa and celebrity. MONTGOMERY, James,— a gendeman, moftpro- I>ab]y, of Scottilh cxtra&ion, wu appejoted fecond ucu- W^ant of the Dunkirk in 167J. On the 30tli of No- veniber, in the famt: year, he was removed inio the Hunter ; and) on the 16th of TanuaTV i677>8, into tbp ^riAol. On the 29th of Marcn 167S, ht was pronutcfl to be firil lieutenant of the Ro^al Oak : and, in i^-jQ, qf thc'Mary. On thelchof Apnl 1681, nc wai made Iwiw tetunt ta the Coofiant Warwick f on the i6th of Jui^ following of the Mary Rofc ^ audi on the i^th of Juob . 1 685, ofthe Charles nlley. On the tsthof July 1686, l)e was promoted to the command of .the Young Spn^ge ; aad, on the the Qth (or, accoidiiU| to others on we Mih) or September 1688,. of the Noniuch. He had coaceiyod k periopal attachmeat to the wnfortiunte and mi^ James, whidi was not to bf fiiakea by aa^ remonfti or iho& difficulties which, after the change of govcntmenf, inown by the name of the revolution, be m^t have fora- leen mult ineviublv attend his perfeveraoce. We fcarce^ know how to wkhaold our phy fwai hfnownUe and oon- fcientious partiality, though political icafony and the lone ti our counttj oblige us pesempiorily, to condemn ii. His difaHedion to the government of king William, and known diClike to thofe equitable principles of true liberty which -pnidDCRt it, caofed hit dlrmifnon from the fervice on the A4thof Match 168B-9. Nothing fiuttier has come lo'our knowledgtl, ■ ROWE, Symon, — was appointed lieuttnaht of the St. David on the 17th oCA|pii' 1682; and on the 14th »f July 1686, was promoted to the command of the Durt- baitoo fiijplte, cm of the ftipe ukoi from t4ie«nfertunate Atgyle. 1 3 ASHTON, L;,u,i,;.du,Goo^It: tlVES'ANO CffARACTtUB OP 1687. ASHTON, Thomas, — was appointed lieutenant or the Mary, on the 21ft of March 1678, by vfce-admirtl Herbert. On the 14th of April 1686, he was removed To tfie fame ftation on board' the Briftol ; and was agaia rc-3ppointed to it (the (hip having in the iriti^rim Seen ■fnlo port to rcfitj on the 9th of Augiift ftijlowing. On the i2d of April 1687^ he was promofcd to the commanfl of the Lark. On the i6th of June r6?8, he'was ap- .•poifrred to the Giiernfey'; acd was removed, on the 30th ■of Auglift following, Into the Cemurion. We hear no- 'tfripg'of ,Hm after rhe'revoliitior, fo that it is mofV pro- >aile he was one 'of themlflaken adherents to James the ^ecorid, who rcliirquifhed every aJi'antnge antfthe hope of 'being ranked among the brave defenders of their native ■country for the empty fatisfaftion of accompanying, into cxiie, the monarch'who would 'have enflaved h. '^Ve "artr father ftrengrhened in this opinion "by the recolle^ion^ Wat'thc famfly oftfie Aftton's were among ihewarmeft lAij^rters of the 'carifc of Jain'^s ; and 'that one of the «(Vme name, not iMprobably a brother of this gentleman, paid, in the ftibfc'quenf reign, his life, tbc jnrt forfeit eJf jiis h'-^afciikblc dtfign. ' ■ '• - GOWRAN, Rli^hard, Fit?patrick, Lortl,_was ihb "ftcond fon of J deduced, b^ itv ancieni faerai«once| aflJ iSercfbre we Dial] only obferTC, rfut ihry tell us, fn ihe fijUyrfevenili dafceni, liaei Fitx Ktt^aih, ancdlor to the naWroiu ■ left, fi£ lift ^Kati»qii4tughtiiti^twti»joii^ikUKry, uidwu f«S- LiiQiiizctiDyGooglt: NAVAL OFFICTRS'OF CSirXT BRITAIN. I3S fcai-fervice, he was, on ifie I4ih of May rm-j, appnmtecl commander of the Rrdimond. On the 24th of May* 1688, he was made captain of the Affihi^nCe. Soon after the re fto ration' he wa$ Appointed to command the Lark, This Tcfl'el was em^\ajcd, during the year 1689, as » cniiling frigate ; and captain Fif7 pat rick, -who appears to hare tJecn a vtry aftive commardcr, had conrtdcrablc fuccefs againft the fmall French priratcfrs, which at that time much infcfted the Britilh coaft, more partictilarly that part of it which is wafficd by the Germari Ocean. On the nth of January following he was promoted to tlic St. Alban's, a fourth rate. On the rSlh of July he had' the good fortune to fell in with a large French frigate, motinting thirty-fix guns, 13 leagues to the WeRward of the Ram Head. 'i"he enemy haYing on board, in addition toherowncrewof twotiitndrcd men, a company of fifty fiifileers, commanded Hy a captain and two lieutenants,' was enabled to make a very obfUnatc defence ; at length/ after a contert of faur hoora continuance, the fupcriority of tfw St. Alban'ipTcvaiied, and the French Ihip w»s towed tuto Plyaiouth aUnoii a wreck, having had forty men kilM and wounded. The fuperior conduA of cap- tain Fiizpatrick, in the manafjetiient of the St., Albany tvas very apparent, he having had onlv four men killed 3nd fevcQ wounded. In the month of Fcbruniy following ifetik&ad a Itiil more notable piece of fervice, by driving on-fhrne two fmall French frieates, and capturing, in conjunfllon with the Happy Return, commanded hy_ Lccccdcd by hii Con Fiii-KcUi, ihc falba of Domiw. ibe faiber of £>MuM, whofe fan', fiiz-PbMlraMfi.wu fatiicr of Fili~Scanlaa (More) Uk Gidlla Ft^diM^, from vhwn (ke Mme of Mac-Gill FaliJck. ooKr fafieDcd ielo FitzflHtick, if dciivcd. " Fnia Ibi* (lock v»i defcodcd &c Bcrsaril Micgii) Patrick, ere. ateil bfTM Vf VffmtOBety byplMnt, dated m Dublin, June ibe 1 itl^ 1^1, in iIK33(1 ycac of kiogllcnry ibc Ligbtb. This liilc was »., linfLby ihe ouilawiy (if&i)'tiiFii«pMnck,i7Utb*r(HiorUt>p«rOfli»ry) OD ilia nth of May 1691. KJchatd Fiiioatiick wai t^kcudcd in a tI^^i line from John FiiifialHckt pi Cadleiown, e<(). ^cond fon of fiurcnee. ihc thud baion of Uj^kqi Offftry, who Itiied in ibc reign Qf imci ibf FiiH." , Tbi) Qiuriaccouat of ihc trnily of FiUpatiick')* laken from A(*i>r J*!''* fte"SS.«'f JlJJ*^^ v<(l.-ii. .. .. t 1 4. captain L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 136 UTEI ADA CHAKACTtlS Of «iptain Moak, tnd fome pj'intwrs, fourteen Frencb merchant-fliipsoutof ■ fleet of twcnty.two *. In Janmry 1691, obm. Fitspatrick wu difjp*(ched to Cadi I as cmiunaoding c^ccr of a fimll fqiadroDiof three fhips, to annouacc the failing of a larecr iotct, uodcr fir Ralph Delaval, which mi^t be daily exAc^ed. T'lte objeQ of this cquipotcnt was,. to cfcort to Europe a very . valuable Hect of merchant flups. Ob the arrival of fir l^ph, captain Fitzpatrick put himJelf, according to hift inAni£Uons, under his oiders ; and rcturoed with him to £oglaiid in the month of March. From this time, till the month of March 1695-6, we havu been unable to dif- cover what fervice he was engaged in, or what Ibips b« commanded, we believe him to nave beea, for a conCderabte part of it, unemployed, particularly in the year 1693. In the month of MaTcni695, wc iiod him comcaaadcr of the Burford, of feventy guns, one of the fquadron at t)iat time und^ the orders of fir Cloudafly Shovel. la * Estnft of ■ Icner Sna nmftNmh, ittti Fcbruarr tk tTth. *' Tbii df IBM tn, tmm eniSnff m th« gcmS of Frma., Aeir nkftftiei bb tlM Si. Albta'i, apuin JTiupauick eomaHdtr, wfa» give* the fuflowira ■ccouni. " On ifie jtKoF thit monih we flood in wiili St. Vallcrjr and rai^c4 tloM that fljDre. where we Riok op two fiUring bo»> with thirty nen. On the 6(h we rpabe with four DbkIi printecn, who give n iMcl* Kmhcc of fiiiirtecB bil of tif An Uf at MMbor uatkr Che f fao M caltlc. The neit 4>y w« fiood in, bnl baiKi ibe Fnwlt vdfcli b3 all efcapcd ifito ibe haveii, except tfacir csnTojr, wbich "tp^wt iwcni^-iour guni, wbich wc fooa ■ftcrwaidi [breed ••Ihorci and M- temprcd 10 gp in wicfa our boaU, but could do noitung. We fiieJ feme guni it the caftle, ud iben Hood 10 in. On the lad, of Cipe Jbrfteur, •« met with iw«ntf-nra Tal^f FreMhkght Aipk wIm, tW ^y before, (ime frota Ht-m ie Gnet, bMnd 1» Roebe^, Nho, and BeiidnoK. After bafJM driven tlMr tomwy, ■ ftiip ml Mm mit», >-Qiore on the flioili afC»pt i.t tlogMi We IMk two (^ tW ieei, ibe Happy Reiurti two d^an, Ac Giur Dutch privMem*' each «f theiii M mu^, Mtd ■ GMroTaf priwtur ma t»Mt. h Hev btml from tile eaftward, which pre die nK n offtnmmtf M dbtpiaa. On the 131b we went iniaCvemfitfwiik three of oornriMtsaBd ID going in one of then) flruck on kroek, where flic «ai l«B. Ob the Ijih we pot to fen a^n; and, ott i)ie i8th, to bound te Hivie de Grace, ladcwwrthortngei. On the gjtll wc look a French privateer of twenty-two gmt, but laden ea th« ntrehiDi'* iccoUM, and Irrving at Convoy to about finecti fail of Ihift bound to Dauiuik, wbich the piilmea beUneiM iJI uken." the DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL QFFICMS OP CXEAT SKITAIN. 137 die oioalh of May h« was detached^ with a (lout fqiudron, to nconiitHtre Brefl, by fir O. Roake, who had taken the coounaiuiof thefieet. While employed in this fcrvice he fell in with the marquis of Neftnood's fquadron, confifl. ing of feven fliips of the line, and immediately gave thein >duce ; but aignt comiae on the enemy cfcaped. In the IBOQth of July capnin Fitzpatxick was detached by lord Berkeley, who had fucceeoed lir George Rooke in the comaund of the fled, to attack the ifland of Grouais, one of the Cardinals. His force confined of the Burford, his own {hip ; the Newcallle, and a fiielhip. He cffeded his laadi9g without iofs j and had made confiderable progrefs ill del^roying the villages, when he was, on the 5th of the fame month, reinforced by the Kent, Boyne, Torbay, and two Dutch fhipB of war, together with a number of long boats bom the otbei lliips in the fleet, fo that by the 9tB they bad deftroyed above twenty villages, and brought off upwards'of 1 300 head of cattle and horfes, tc^ether with boats and foull veflek. The alarm and infult offered to the enemy, who had but juft before vainly alTumed the title of lordi of both feai, was, perhaps, of flill greater national confequence than the oufchief. Captain Fitz- patrick's conduifi, both on this and every farmer occafion, was highly approved by king William, who, on the 12th of Ot^ober [696, granted to him, and his elder brother, Edward, who was a brigadier -general in the army, the eAale of Edmund Morris, forfeited in confequence of hts having taken up arms in favour c^ the late Vine James. Morris was killed at the battle of Agrhim. Ine grant was worthy of a fovereign : it confilied of eleven town- fliips and eflatBt, in Queen's county ; and ccxifiderable additions have iince been made to it by purchafe. The peace of Ryfwic taking place in the following jrear, and every operation of war, till that time, growing torpid, though ceflation of hoClilities was not decbred, we bate nothing farther to record of captain Fitzpairick till, after the acce(&on of queen Anne, when he was amwinted to command the Ranelaeh of eighty guns. When the fleet failed on the expedition asainfl Cadiz the duke of Ormond embarked on board this uiip, which was Rationed in the line as one of the feconds to lir George Rooke on h«Kii the Royal SovereigD. At the attack on Vigo he conti* l;,u,i,.™u,C00^Ic I3» tlVES AND CttARACTERS OT conlinucd one of the fcconfts lo fir George Rofike, ivbrt had fiiifted tiis flag into ih; Somerfet. Early in ihc ff)I~ lowing year he refigned the command of The R3ncIag^, and retired altogether from ihc ftnice, having acquired the jtift reputation of a brave man and an abtc capTaiu. Retiring to his native country, he from this time fignalifed hlmfclf in hiscivi! capacity- by taking every opportunity of promoting tlie true intereft of his country, in jiarticu-' lar by mod ftrcmionlly fupporting the adt for C-Itling the Proteflant fucccffion. Tlie zeal he had always (hewn on itiis occafion, Tiut more efpccially his inteiirity and amiable tjiialiiies, indticed king George the F\tH, atmo& immediately after his acceflion, 10 creaie him a peer oC Ireland *, by the title of baron Gowran,'of Gowran in that kingdom. He took his feat in parTvament on the 12th of novcmber following ; and two days afterwards ■was one of the lords appointed to prepare an addicfs, to congratulate his majelty on his acccffion to ihe throne. In the month of July 1718, his lordthip married Anne, youngcft daughter and co-heirefs to fir John Robinfon, of Farming Wood in the county of Northampton, baronet, and died June the g\h, 1727, leaving iltiie; hy her, two fnriK, John, his heir, aficiwards created ear! of Upper OfTorv, and.Ri^hard. ' WALTERS, Benjainfn,— was a[1pointed fcCond lieu- tenant of the Plymouth in 1672 ; ?.iia, dtiririg iht courfc of that year, was removed to tfTc fame ftation on board the Rupert; of which fhip he was, on the" 14-ih ofjaoiiary- 1673, promoted to be firfl lieutcnani. On l!ie 27ih of April 1675, he was app^iintediifntenant of the Swallow ; on the loth of January idi-j-^, of the Greenwich; Oiithc joth of April following of the Henrietta ; on the 15th of May 1680, of the Alfiitance; and, on the 17th of Jimp 1685, of the Happy Rettim. After having ihus/erved,^ for fifteen years, in ihe ftaTton'of a lieutenant, he ivas,',' ijiti^ij anil by pa'iciil aiDuliIin, ilic e/iIi ofApiil foilowiu^. ' " * DolizodbyGoO^Ii: HAVAl OFPrCERS OF ORBAT BRITAIK. I39 the 30th of Auguft, into the Diamond. After the revo- lution he was appointed commander of the Swallow ; in. which (hip, wliich was only a fmai! fouith rate of forty- eight guns, he ferved at the battle off Beachy Head ;.and, as he himfelf ftated in his evidence to the commillioneTS of the admiralty, was obliged to run half a cable's length to leeward of the Englilh line, in order to get fo much nearer the enemy that the Ihot from his guns, which ■were inferior in weight to ihofe of a proper (hip of the line, might reach them. After this we find nothing far, ther of him but that he was put on the fupcrannuated lift in the year 1693, with the pay of a captaia of a third rate. He died on the 26ih of February 1 698. 1688, BOTELER, or BUTLER, Henry, —was appointed lieutenant of the Dover in (672. He does not appear to have received any conimillion from this time till the year 1682, when he was, on the i8th of November, rnadc lieutenant of the Ruby. Early in 1683 he was removed inio the Guernfey, and very foon afterwards returned to his old (hip the Ruby. On the 26th of April 1688, be was promoted to be captain of the St. Paul fircfhip. After thfe revolution, in the year 1 6go, he was fent to the Well Indies commander of this vefPel, under the orders of com- modore Wright. In this ftaiion he continued till the arrival of commodore Wrenn, in the month of January 1 691 -2, when he was promoted to he captain of the Mor- daunt, afmajl fourth rate of forty-two guns. In the en- gagement which took place on the 2tft of February, between the Engli(b fquadron under commodore Wrenn, and that of the French under the count dc Blenac, captaia Butler fignalized himfelf in a very remarkable manner. The French fquadron confiilcd of lixtecn (hips, fourteen of which were of tvro decks ; that of the Eng1i(h of five men of war only, four of which were fourth rates, two hired (hips ^d two privateer (loops. From this extra- ordinary L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 140 LIVKS AND CHABACTIXS OP erdinary fuperiority the French were eiubkd to cut odT and entirely rurroiind the Mtmjaunt, leather with the Mary, and the New England frieite, one of the himi fhips. Such, however, wae the bravery, condudi anift dctcnnined refoludon of their gallatK commanders, that tliey defended thentlelvea fo fucceftfultr as to force their way thrmigh the enemy, in fpite of ali the oppofition they could make, and rejoined their own fquadron. On the death of Captain Wrcnn, and others fieih among the Srivate captains, the command devolved vptfh captain iitler in the month of May. Having removed into the Mary, he failed from Barbadoet on tha I4ih of June, with the Aflidance and Sr. Paul fire Ihipt, and ahii^ flact of merchant Ihips, which he conduced in fafety to Cape Clear, otF which they were leparated in a- thick fog, though happily no misfortune attended this accident. Captain Butler arrived at Plymouth on the nth of Au- gtilt ; and as foon as hii 0\ip, tfte Mary, which was a third rate of fixty-two guns, was rehtted, captain Butler was rc-appoihted to command her, as one of the Chadoel Beet, in the month of Jn)y he wat pro- noted (o the Northumberland of fcveuty gum. In this fliip he continued till the time of his death, antevent which took place on the 21ft of September 1693, in a duel with a captain of marines, at Ponfmouth. Thtn &11 a man, whofe conduct had done an honour to his pro- feilion, a vidim to a private and inconfideraie qiurrel, probably arifing from fome very trivial caufe ! ". BOUNTY, John, — was appointed lieutenant of the Affiftance on the ZTlh of November 1^3. In tbi« Ihip he continued till the ift of November 1677, when he wu removed into the Falcon, of which be was appointed to a£t as commander in the month of Augufl to8o, and brought it home from the Mediterranean foon after that time. On the J 5th of Ofi. i68i,hc wasmadelicuremntof the Swallow^ in 1685 of the MoniagiK ; and, on the loth of September 1688, of the Dreadnought. On the 14th of Odtc^er following he was promoted to the command * In ihe Life of fir John Lnke, priflted in London 1750, he it f«i4 CO have been tbeiuihorof arcry tiigeiuwNb«d(on niTatigaka, eiiiitlcil Colloquia Maiiiima, 2 of DolizodbyGoOgle MAVAt. OrriCKKS OF GKSAT MITAIH. I41 of the fUS M9011 inOuf, Imf comotiffioo from lord Dartmouth at that time admiral of tie fleet. Aft«r the revirftitioa be was promoted to the Commuid of the Mary n-i-- _r r__.. -■ u. l- .w:. A.:_ 1 .._r / Rofe of fbrty-eiigfll guns. In this (^p be was unfbrtu- lately t«kaii by the Freoct ' ' n oaiKivity, on the 4,th of J CORNWALL, Wolfran,^-was the deicendant of a nately taken by the French in the year 1691 ; aod died, >, on the 4,tfa of July in the fame year. very ancient and refpe^lahle fufiUy in Hcrefordihire. H« was appoiiu«i lieutenant of the lyiger, by admiral Her- bert, on the 30th of January 1681-2. He is not known to have received any conunifTion after this, (ill the year 1688, when, on the 23,6 of AaguA, be was promoted to the coDinaeiMl of the Dartmouth.. He was retnovod into the Conftant Warwick, aa the 36th of November fbllowini; ; and, sftcrwards, on the 22d of December* into the Swallow. He continued to command this Qijp during the nnMinder of the following year. He wasfent Upon the IriQt Aation ; and^ by the fpeciat command of kmg William, was put under the oiders of mijor-geaaat KiwtWhoHastoattccipt (he relief ofLondonderry. Jn t|w moDtli of Sepleinbcr we find him going as a v while the conloiueotial tnift repoM in him conveya iputpon OIK hand, a decided proof of the high ellimatios in which he was held; (b, on riie odier, does it prevenc our haying any interclling particulaiv to eauoierate rohi- tive (o his fervice, (hiring this period, farther than as it Vas conncfled with that of the fleet at large. When the peace at Ryfwic was coiKludcd, is 1697, he retired from itM fcnrice, being put oa the fuperannuated lilt with a ■ pmtioa DolizodbyGoOgle 14^ tlVE3 AfiD (^HAkAdTBRS 6t |ten(ion equal to the pay of a captain of a RtA rate. He died on tite 2lft of January 1719. CROSS, cd the * Sec bit Life, pige 94. DiailizodbvGoOglf ViVX't OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 145 , iAisfortune. When the remains, thus collcfted*, re- Vurncd to Ireland, fir Gegrge joined the main fleet with the Jix Ihips that were in the bcft condition for fen-ice, and ■left captain Fairborne to command the reft, which Were to reiiirn into port when refitted, as well as tircumftances would admit of. Ahhough fortune appears to have denied captain Fairborne, during the ear- lier part of his fL-rvice, an opportunity of diftinnuifhitlg tiimft.If by any other means than a ftrift and rigid ^I- 'tention to the duties of his office, ■ ihefn appear to hax-e Wrongly xecommended him to the favour both of admini- stration, and thofe who were his fuperiors.in command, as In the month of July i696t, we find him captain of the Albemarle of nineiy-gnns, and ftationed In the line as one 'of the feconds to the commander-in-chief; foon after- wards he was made commander of the Viilory. The "peace of Ryfwic took place in the following year, and the next information that occurs relative to him, is, his being appointed, in 1700, commodore of the fiViall fqua- dron, which is ufually fcnt, even to the prefent time, to Newfoundland, for the proteflion of the filhery. On his return from this ftrvice he was appointed to the Tilbury, and.fent into the Mediterranean, where he con- tinued but a ftiort time. Hoftilities were thought to be ton the eve of Commencing with France Jt the time of his arrival in England. This corilideration probably accele- Vated his promotion to be rear-admiral of the bhie on the 30th of June 1701 : but the open rupture, which had fceen long expeaed, did not break out litl after the accef- 'iion of queen Anne. In the mnnth of April 1 702, rcar- ■admiral Fairborne was difpatchetl, with a fma'I detaA- mcnt of the fleet, to Ireland, for the purpofc of bringing tover from thence fome troops, defined to form part of the land-forces about to bs fent, under the duke of Or- inond, on the expedition againft Cadiz. He waS, during * On the pilTafR (o Ireland, from Midcin, ihe Monk, in con. juoflion with ihc Chaihim, hid ihc f^ood foriune (o CJpturc iwo rich prize! ; one oiMwaid-haund from Frjnre 10 the Wtfl lodirs, wiih foldieri eloaibing, brandy, wine, &c. and the D[hcr humewaid. bound from Mar lin ICO, cKh noaminj; about thirty guns. t to ihc preceding year he commanded ihe Ccfiauce. Vol. H. K bit DiailizodbvGoOglf 146 LIVES AND CHARACTERS 01> hisabfence, advanced on the 8th of May 1702*, to he rear-admiral of the white. He Ttrved in this Hation during the enriiing expedition ; and, on the 22d of June, , having hojfted bis flag on board the St. George of ninety- fix guns, was detached before t the main body of the fleet under fir George Rooke. He had under his orders rear- admiral Graydon, and the Dutch rear-admiral WafTcnaer, with twenty Ihips of J war of different rates. Sir George . himfelidid not fail till after the middle of July, and con- trary winds confiderably impeded his progrefs to the appointed place of rendezvous. This, however, he reached on the 30th; but unfavourable weather had blown the rear-admiral, with his divifion, from the Itation: and tlic fame caufe prevented the jiinilion till . ihe 8th of Auguft ; by which time his fquadron was re- duced to much diftrefs, for want of provifions. The ileet immediately Hood away for Lifbon, and from thence for Cadiz, which it reached on the I2th, an- choring about five o'clock in the afternoon in the Bay of Bulls. The ill fiicccfs of this part oftheexpedition^is toowell known; but where even the commander-in-chief is totally . exempt from all blame relative to the failure, it . becomes iinpodiblc for the moftinveteratecalumny to affix any ftigma on thofe who, ading on every occafion in con- . furmity to his iuHru^lions and orders, could, at moil, only be cenfured in a fccondary light. The fleet, on its return home, acquired fome faiisfadion for the former difap- pointment. The capture of Vigo, in a pecuniary fenfc, re- warded the gallantry of the atfaUants more fubflantially than that of Cadiz would have done. Sir S. Fairborne removed his flag from the St. George into the EiTeXi but ' does not appear to have been perfonally concerned to the . attack. When fir George Rooke returned to England he * About thii limeairohe received the bonouroFkniglbthaod. + Firft 10 look into the Groyne, »nd if he found any French fqat' droii ihere, 10 block it up; if not, he wis to cruircoGTCapc FiniQtrtc till Joined by the main Reel under lii George, ± Gauiic, No. nSii. Ij During which he appciri, by foine MS. minutes of the cbundU of war ihcn hr Id, to bivc been principally employed in reconnoitrinir ^ the coalt prepantoty to the delccni, ud diffetcut f ropDTed atticlu. was ..Google NAVAL OFFICERS OP GRIAT BRITAIN. 1+7 was left, with fir Cloudeflcy Shovel, (o bring home the prizes ; a fervice, in which they encountered much dif- ficulty, from the fcverityofthe feafon, tempcftuous wea- ther, and contrary winds. After being feparated from iir CloudeJley, in a violent gale, on the 6th of Novemirr, that part of the fleet which kept company with fir Stif- ford, arrived fafe at Spithcad with hiiaon the 17th of* the fame month. On the 6th of May, in the following year, fir Stafford was promoted to be vice-admiral of the red ; and, as it is fald, offered the chief command in the Weft Indioi, which he thinking proper to decline, it was conferred on vice- admiral Graydon. He was afterwards appointed to fervc in the main fleet under admiral Churchill, when that olficer was fent 10 take the chief command in confequence of fir:- G. Roolce's indifpofilion : but on his quick recovery they both returned into portwithoutproceedingto their feveral appointments. Hewasafterwards fent on the Mediterranean fervice, as fecond in command of the fleet under the orders of fir Cloudefley Shovel, Having hoifted hii flag on board the Affociaiion they failed from St. Helen's on the ill of July. On the 2+th the fleet arrived off Cafcais, and fir Stafford was immediately difpatched to Lifbon to inform the king of Portugal, who had joined the grand alliance, of the arrival of the combined fleet. He was received with every poflible mark of attention by the king ; and returned to the fleet highly fatisfled with thefe convincing proofs of roya! attention to the dignity of his charaSer. The operations of this armament in the Me- diterranean, during this fummer, were rendered, from it* late equipment and (hort continuance on that ilation, ex- . tremely uninterefting. This circumftance we have already had occafion to remark in the life of fir Clou- defley Shovel. The fieet returned to England in the month of No- vember. On the 26lh, that mofl furious tempeft arofe, which has ever fmce been dlftinguilhed by the name of the f^reat ftorro. At this time (ir Stafford was laying in the Downs, having his flag on board the Affociaiion, This * Gauiic. No. 38S3. K 2 ihip DiailizodbvGoOglf *+8 LfVES AND CHARACTERS OP ftip was blown from her anchors; and, after almofl mi- raculoufly having efcaped a myriad of -perils, was obliged to put into Gottenburgh. The fingularity of ihii event will, probably, juftify the infcrtion of a more particular aoeount*; and the rather, becaufc fir Siafford's conditd * Her miJcOy's (hip AfTociation, a fceond rate of ninety-fix gem, commanded by (ir Sufford Fiirbome, vice-adminl of ctic red, ind under him captiin Richard Ctnmng, failed from ihe Dowoi the 941)1 •f November lad, in company wiEb feven other capital fiiipi on their rciiim from Lct;hoTn up ihe fiver, under the eammai)d of ibe honouiaLle fir C. H!ro.':l, admiral of ihe white. They anchored ' (hat iiiglit off the Loiig-fend Head ; the rtex( day ihey ftnick yardi md mp-maU*. On the a7ib,'>bout three in the momine, the wiod bc W. S. W. enerealed to an hurricane, which drove the Airociaiion .from her anchon. The night was exceeding tbrk; but, what whi flill more dreidful, the Gilbpcr, a vcry*d3ngcioos fand, wai under her Ice; fo fllat the crew were in nometitary expeflalion of ftrikiog upon ii, thinking il beyond the ppwcr of ma:) to avoid it. Driving ' ibui, at the mercy of the v,-.ivei,iip1eared God, that about five o'clock, the fliip polled over the tail of ihe Galloper in feven fathom water : ' the wavei, running mouuiaini high, uppeared ready lo fwillow her Dp. The (hip received, ai ihJi mite, a Tea on her Qar-board fide, TMiich beat over her, broke »iid forced in fcveial half porta, tnd alfa the enicring port. She itKik in fuch t vaft qnaniiiy of water that ic ]icpihetdowu upon her Cdei and every body bdieved that Ihe could , not have righ led again, had nut tlie wiier been fpeedily letdown Id (be hold by fcultling [he decks. Duiinj; ihis conilrroalion two of ibe lower gun deck piuls were forced open by ihii m~igb>y weight of water; the moll dreadful accideni, nCJit 10 touching the gioumT, that could have happened 10 la. Bui ihe ports that had been forced open- being readily I'ecured, by the dire^iun, aitd command of the vice-ad- Biiral, who, thotigh much iudifpofed, was upon deck all that time, no- fdTlber mifchief tiappcncd. As the fiiip Aill drove before the wind ihe was not Ion§ in ihis flioal [where it wai impuirble for any fliip 10 have lived for any length of time) but cwnc into deeper water and a- fmuo'ber fea'; however the hunicane did not vet abate, but raibei oa the contrary, feemed to ga'ihcr Rrcngih. Woids were no foonrr uttered than they wete carried av,-»y by the wind; To that alibough tiiofe upon deck fpokc loud, and clove 10 oiic anoiher, yei ibey coujd not often diiliiiguilh whm v.'as fdid : uhc'n ihcy opened their mouil.s their bieathiWFte almoft taken away, Part of ihe fpnt fail, ihongli ' fad furled, wk blowii ai^v from ilic'yaid. A len-oated boat, ibat war UDiedonherllar-boaidli^c, waiof'cn hove iip by the ftrcogth of the wind and ovctfet upon her gun wale. We plainly faw ibc wind Ikimmi^g up the waier a; if it had bi-en faird, carrying it up Inro ih* air, whicliwai ihcn fo tliick »Dd gloomy thai day-ligbt, wltich Ihould have been comfortable id its, did but make it appear more ghaflly. L;,u,i,;.du,Goo^Ii: KiVALW^FKERS OF GUSAT MITAIS', 1+9 *)^ f<> trying an occafion, appears to haTc been fuch as en- ijlled hini to every poflible mark of rtgard and honour. Soon after his return -he ftiiftid his flag into the Shrewl- bury, and was appointed fecord in coiinnand of the ftjua- (Iron, fcnt out in the month of May, under iir Cloiidciley Shovel. Tbe objeA of this equipment was to attack, if at fea, oroihcrwife to confine in port, a french ariruiincnt, ■ fitting for fea at Bred, und«r the count de Ibouloufe. Information was received by the admiral that the French had quitted Brett fome days before he himfclf left Portf- The fun, by iniervali, peeped through th« corner of ■ cloud, bat fooa difappismng Icfr ui i more mclinchoty profpefl of our Gtualion. . Abouielcvcn o'clock iidifpcifcil theclouiii, and ihe hurricane abaitd iolo ■ more modcraie floim, which drove u> over to ihe bank of Flanderi, and thence along the coafl of Holland and Frifcland to ihe entrance ofibcElbc; where, qd the 4th oF December, we hadalmolt at violent a norm at wha we drove from our aucbori ; the wind at N. W. driviiw UI dircfllTupon the (bore ; fo that we mud all liave iaet'uMj pcriibcd had iiot God mercifullv favoured ui, aboui ten o'clock at nigl)E, with a S. W. wind, which gave ui an opportunity of Slitting (o Tea. Being afierwardi driven near the coall of Norway, the lip wanting anchori md cablei, our wood and cardlei wholly ex- pended, nobecron board, noraily thing elfc in lieuof it, everyone wit ceduced to one quart of water per day. The men, who had been hir- rafTed at Bell IQe and in our Mediicrianean voyage, now jaded by iha continual faiiguei of ibc Harms, falling Gck every day, the vice-admiral, in this exigency, thought it advifeabte 10 put into Goricnbourgh, the only port where we could hope to be fupplied. We arrived there the I ith of December; and having, without loli of lime, got anchor* and ctblet fronvCopenhaf^cn, and proviGoni fiotn Goiicnbourgh, we failed from thence »n the gJ of January with twelve merchaniroen under our convoy, all laden with llorei tor his majefly'i nivy. The I lib followine we prevented four French pnvdteenfiom taking; four of our flore-fhips. At night wc anchored off the Long-find Head; yreighed again the next day, but fooo caitK to an anchor, becanfe it Wat very hazy weather. Here we again rode out a violent florm, wbtch wai like 10 htac driven us again 10 fea. But after three dayi very had veaihcr we weighed and arrived to the buoy of the Nore on the agd of January, having run very great liitt amon^ the fandi, for we Ifad not only contrary, but alfo very lempelluoDi wimli. We loR twemy-eighi men from licknefs, contracted bv the hardlfaipi whieh they endured in the bad weather; and had nut frr SiaHord Fairborne, by hii great care and diligence, got the Hiip out of Goitenbourgh, anii by thai meani prevented her being frozen up, mod part of the lailor* would have petifhcd bv the fcverity of iht winter, «hicb it iDtoleraHy csid tfl thofe parig. K 3 mouth j DiailizodbvGoOglf t50 ttVtS AHP CRAIACTCKS Of mouth i To that after a fortnights incfTe£liul cruile it was determined, by a council of war, that the admiral him- felf fliouid proceed for Lifhon to join fii George Rooltc, according to his inAnidionJ, with, two-and- twenty Ihips of the fquadron ; and that fir Sta^brd, wiih the major part of the remainder *, Otould return to England, as his or- ders didatcd. During the remainder of the year we find no mention made of fir StafTord, who was, in 1705, fent fccond in command of the fleet, deflined for the Mediterranean fer- vice, under fir Cloudefley Shovel. No detachment was n?ade under his fpecial command, nor, indr:ed, does there appear to have been any feparate fcrvice undertaken by any part of the fleet, fo that the relation of the navat operations of this period are, of neceflily, confined to the life of Shovel, the admiral-in-chief t. They returned to England together in the month ot November ; and, hav- ing ftruck their flags, repaired botn to London, where they were received, both by the queen and prince George, with thofe marks of efteem their condudl had wcJl merited. , In the month of April 1706, fir Stafford, who fljll continued vice-admiral of the red, was appiiimcd com- mander of a fmall fquadron which rendezvoufed at Spii- htad. It coniifted only of five fmall line of batde fhips, and a frigate ; and was to be joined by two other fliips of the line, one of forty guns, and a frigate, from Plymouth. Having ufed the utmoildiligence in procuring the equip- ment of his {hips, he vras enabled to put to fea on the 24ih of that month ^. His iiiftrui^tions were to proceed, with ail imaginable fecrccy, off the river Charente, wheic he was to ule his utmolt endeavours to take or deJlroy fuch Ihips as the enemy might be tilting out from Roch- * Commodore Ktrr, wiih a fmall detachmcnl, vrai ihcii wilh ibc fleet uid under ordcn to convoy ihc oui ward- bound Wed India trade, which were alfo in compaii)-. * Sir SiatTaid had the (uinmand of the attack, t>]> fca, it i[i« fie^ of Barccloni, which lie wis ordered to caneonade villi a delichmeiit of eight Englilh and Dutch fliips of the line, while a powerful divcr- 60a wu made, in another pari, by ibe bomb kciche*. X But itappeartby theGueile, No. 411 e6, it did nolquilPIj'mouih tfl] thefilhofMay. foit, D,a,l,;t!d,byG00gIe HAVAl OFFICEKS OF GREAT BRITAIN- I5I foit, which ufually lay at the mouth of that ri.ver to take in their guns, ftores, and provifions. Contrary winds for a ponliderable time impeded his progrefs ; and when, at" length, he reached the place of his defined attacki the time limited for his abfence was fa nearly expired^ that, notwith flan ding he had made the neceflary difpofi- tions for burnjng fome of th? enemy's fhips, which he ] found at anchor there •, he was obliged to return without having been able to effedt any other fervice than the dc- ftrudion of about half a fcore trading velTcls, and the capture of a few inconfiderable prizes which he furprifed between the iflands of Rhec and Oleron. The fquadron returned to Plymouth on the 17th of May ; and fir Staffnrd immediately received orders to repair to the Downs with feven (liips of the line, fourfri-" gates, a fire-fhip, two bomb-ketches, and four fmall vef- Tels. On the 30th of the fame month he received farther " orders to repair to Offend, with the force under his com- " mand, in order to co-operate with the land force under jnonfieur Auverquerque, who was detached, by the duko of Marlborough, to befiege that town. Sir Stafibrd im- mediately failed on this fervice, and anchored as near Odertd as a proper attention to the fafeiy nf his (hips warranted. It was propofed that Njcuport (hould be firft attacked; to promote which he, immediately on his arrival, detached three of his fmall frigates to block up that place, and prevent the iritrodudiion of any pro- vifions qj reinforcements by fea. The intended pUo of operations being afterwards changed, and Oilend * " Wbitchill. U*y ig, ■;()6. Sir StalTord FiitbornF, vice-' admiral of the tea fquadton of her raajcfly'i Seel, who fome lime' line* failed from Ptymoulh with a fquatfron of her inajc(!y*i (hipi, I1' remrnrd ro ihirport. He bai been off ihe liver Charentr, which cpmcs frpm Rofbfort, jnd hu brought in wiih him fix prizrs, rhreo of ihcm \aica wiih iron, tar, and r(«in, which were iBken beiween (lie itlci Rbce and Otcron; where, wiih liit hoaii, he a\to burnt, funk, and diove pa fhore ten oF the enemiri vefTcJi; and, ii ii be.' lievcd, a fhipof iweniy gun), that ran i.fhoie and bilged. Whtn' the vice-adminl came oQ'Rochclle, it wii determined in aiiempi ihe- (Oemji'i fhipi which \iy there; and all tbingt wcie |;ot In tcadimr*. for it: hut the wiodi coming np contrary prevented hij pulling eGegc,d were ^vfmounteil* and the place itfelf reduce^ licarly 10 an heap of ruins. .Oil the morning of the 25ih, the town Wing no longer jcnable againp fo fonnidable an enemy, the befiegcd beat a parley, and the fame day the capitulation ysfAS aAually concluded. Thus, by a happy conjunSion of fpiittj, prudence, and ability, was a cOnquelt effeded after only fhr^c days open trenches, which had cod the Spaniards, about an hundrcdyears beforcj a fiege of upwards of three ypars, and the lives of near fourfcore thojifand perfons. The veffcls which lay in the harbouf were not included in the capliuhiion, fo that they immediately fell a prey to the viitofs, who found three ftiips of v^r, one of (c?enty, another of fifiy, and a third pf forty guns, together with feveral (hi psof*^ inferior force i and upwards* of forty fliips and velTels belonging jo the merchants, left as fubitanttal ^nd valuable trophies attending the conqueft. WitJi this riiccefs fir StafFord appears to have clofed his nava) life, and not aga|n to have razardcd the lofs of that reputation he had fo juftly acquirctl. On the 28th* of June 1707. he p'as, together »vith fir Cloudefley Shovel and Mr. R. Walpole, afterwards earl of Orford, added to the liil of prince Qt^rge's council, in his quality of lord high admiral ; an office he, however, firarcely held twelve months. He is faid, in molt navj-Iills we have fcen, tq h?ve ^[een appointed admiral of the white in the ycai 1707. Some have even been fo particular as to ftate the very day t; andalfo that, on the 21ft of December 1708, he was conftituted admiral of the fleet. No traces of Ihefe commifTiqns are to be found among the bed hillo. riansj and there are fome circumflances which ftrpngly induce us to dpubt the truth of them. At that day there ■yvas no inftance of there being more than one flag-ofHcer pf each rank at one and the fame time; and it is well. * The Santa Uaria jo g Fl.ndri, 50 QutenofSpjin 40 The Jfjiberioe 16 gum J.idy of Clarr 14 Kin^ of Spain j^ One name unknown 10 E«iia ftt on the 8ih of Januar/ 1707-8, one day only liter the appointment alluded to is faid to have taken 5 lace, fir John Leake received his commiflion, dated that ay, appointing him admiral of the white; and, at thft fame time, a iecond, conftituting him admiral and com- inander-in-chief of the fleet; a poft he enjoyed (ill the year 1709, when he was fuccecocd by admiral Aylraer. At any rate, if the, information afforded by the lifts iscor- re£t, fir Stafford couM have born thcfe commiffions only for a ihort time ; and it is almoft a certainty that he never went to fca ir, either of the capacities alluded 10, Op the ift of January 1714, he is faid to have had a penfion of 600 1. pL-r annum, fettled on him during life. From this time till his death, which happened on the nth day of November 174a*, he lived totally retired from the fervice, FOULKS, Symon, — was appointed lieutenant of the Sapphire on the 23d of September 1680. From this time he do-S not appear to have again received any commiflion ■ ij'l the 30th of Auguft 1688, when he was made firft Irctitcitant of the Plymouth. On the 22d of December following he was promoted, by lord Dartmouth, to be commander of the John and Richard firefhip : he was qtickly afterwards made captain of the Cam- bridge of fevcnty guns. In this tnlpbe ferved at the unfortunate battle off Bcachy Head, in which he bore ^ very diftinffuifhed part. The French fhip whjch was oppciftd to nim in ihcline, and i? thought to have been Oncof the admirals ofthe enemy's rear divifion, having re- ceived fo iTuch damage, that it was pofitivcly aflerted by many to have fynk foon aftciwards. When the fleet re- turned into port captain Foulks was removed >nlo the Montague of^fixty-two guns. In themonthsof January, February, and March 1690-t, he was fent to cruife off the coafl of Ireland to intercept any fupplies dcflined, by the French, for the ufe of the late king James's army. In this fervice he had confiderablc fuccefs ; himfetf and his comrades having taken, in fix weeks timet no Icfs than nine capital privateers, fome of which were velTels of * In ■ nival III), puttlifbed b^ nu^adfuii^t Htrdy, he a fiid to (lavc died in ibe year 171& j I C9nfit DolizodbyGoOgle NAVAL OFFICKKS Ot CKEAT BKITAIH. I55, confiderablc force, befiiles feveral inferior vedels employed in the tranrportation nf ammuniiioi) and ftores. He continued to command this fhip for a confiderablc timct ferving in the Channel fleet • during the three or four following years ; and not appearing to have been detached, during that period, on any feparate or diflinA fervice, he had no opportunity of dilUnguifhing himfelf in any ex- ploit, except fuch as were aichieved by thofe powerful armaments colledtively. In 1695, we find him com- mander of tlie Refulution of fevcnty guns, and detach- ed,, in the month of March 1605-6, to aflift commo- dore Wyvell in the blockade of Dunliirlt, with a fmall fquadron confiding of three fliips of the line, a firefliip, and four brigantines. He was relieved by captain John- fon with a force much fupcrior, on the 10th of Apiil fol- lowing. He rejoined the main fleet on his return, and was foon afterwards fent to convoy the outward-bound merchant-ftiips to the Baltick. He efcorted them bade to England, and arrived fafe, in Solebay, with his own Ibip, on the 25th of September, having juft before en- countered a violent gale of wind, which totally difperfed the fliips under his prpteflion. They all, however, got into port foon afterwards. We hear nothing farther of him till after the acceflion of queen Anne, when he was appointed to the command of the Cumberland of eighty guns, and failed under lie George Rooke on' the well-Known expedition againfl Cadiz. Soon after his return from thence lie was ap- pointed to fuccced captain Bokenham, who died on the 9th of November, as commander of the Airociation, a iecond rate. This promotion he himfelf did not long furvive, dying at Porifmouih on the 2d of Dectmber fol- lowing. GRANVILLE, John, Baron of Pothendge, in the tounty of Devon, — was the fecond fon of the right ho- nourable John Granville firft earl of Bath, and Jane hii wife, daughter of lir Peter Wyche, comptroller of the * He Rgiulired himrdf very much at ihe battle off La Hogne. Hit fliip having been fo much difiibled in thai evcr-meaiorable cb- counier, ibai lie w» ubliged 10 quit ibe fleet immcdittcljr after (be iSdoa and make the bell of hii way to Porifmouih. _ „,.™.,.,Co6g[k' 15* llVtS AND CHARACms OF ,hcHilhoM to king Charles the Firft. His family was nioU ancient arid noble ; dc-miiig itfdf in a dirtfl line from the youngeft fon of Rolb, firft duke of Normandy, through Richard de Granville, lord of ''SlmicclkT and Glamorgan, who lived in the reign of kjn^ William the Conqueror. Ifc accompanied that prince in his expedi- tion to England, and received, as a ri^ward for the fienal fervicc he rendered him, as well at the bailie of Haitmg^ » at other times, a grant of the caltlc and lordfhip of Bid- (iefordfcWith varions other valuable lands and poHcflions in the counties of Cornwall, S-jmcrftf, Glincctler, anet Buckingham. The lineal dcTcendant of this Richard de Granville, with the interpofttion of eleven generations, was lt)c renowned fir Richard Grenvillc, vice-admiral of f nglar^ in the reign of queen Elizabeth, who fell a martyr te his iilmolt tooromanlic gallantry in defending his fhip, for fifteen hours, againft the united efforts of fifty ,threc Spanilh fhips of war, feveral of which were, fingly, of greater force than hiraftlf. Sir RichaiKl yielded not at lad ; his iimbs, weat;c-ncd by the lofs of much bicod and the gngiiifh of feveral wpunds, were unable to continue any farther exertions againft his aniagonifts ; fo ihat ihey weic enabled) qierely from ihis circumltancc, to polFefs thcm- felves of the fainting body of this almoll too-brave man, now nearly reduced lo a lifelefs coipfe. The honour they derived from iheir vitlory was fliort-Iive^i their poor wounded prifoner dying within two days» and the ftiip itfclf foundering in a fhort time afterwards. An honour too, mofl dearly pnrchafed with the lofs of four of their capital fiiips, and the lives of near one thoufand of (heir men, who were either (lain or drowned. John Granville, of whom we are about to fpeak, was tlic lineal (lefceudant * pt this great and illulliious man ; fo * Sir RicluTd Greenville, or Granville, married Maty, elckft daiti;hter ind cohciVcfs to John Si. Lrgcr, of Aumety In ihc couuiy of Devon, kniehi ; by ^hufli he hii iffuc three fonj, Bernard, J(J>n, and Kogert and live d»iKh(eri. Bernard mitried Elizabcih, diiiiBl«wr and eoheirefiof Philip Seville, of Brynnc, cfq. Kj hci he had tHuc a duighter, named Gcrtiude, and four (ant, Seville, Richard, John, ind AVilter. Seville vts thai well koown f^reai and gallant man Vil(0 bravdj-floccl foitli in deFtr-e of Isin^ C*arkj iJie Fiill, 3iid wpfpt- DiailizodbvGoOglf NAV-ALOinCERS OF CRIAT BKtTArH. I5? fo (Iwt be might be faid to have, as it were, an hereditai;]r right to naval eminence. Having attached himfelf eatly ' in life to this f^vice, he was appointed lieutenant of thtt .Crown; but in whut particular year is not known. His JecondcommilGon wasafilieutenaiit of the Adventure, and dated on the 24th of May 1688. ' On the 2+th of OAi>-. bet, or, as we Itam from other information, on the 22d of December, he was promoted, by commillion from lo^d Danmouth, to be captain of the Biiflol. That attach- ment to the houfc of Stuart, which he, as it were, inhe- rited from his ancedors, did not betray him into a counte- nance of the follies and political vices of the unfortimKc James. Being a Heady adherent to thofe patriotic princi- ples which fuggelled and etFeded the revolution, he was continued in his command by kiog William, and appears to huve formed a hrm attachincnt to the brave and unfortunate earl of Torrington. In the year 1689 he v/tt"^ promoted to the command of the Lenox, a third rale of leventv guns. Although he is principally to be con- lidered :n the light of a naval commander, yet he did not folely confine himfelf to that profeflion, liaving ferved in the military line with ib much credit, as to attain tbe rank ut l:o1oiic1 in the guards. He was.alfo appointtd governor of Deal Caftlc. At the battle off Beachy.He$d hecontinuedto command the Lenov^andonthisoccalinn, as on every former one, he braved with the greateft Jpirit and bravery. His honeft attachment to the caufe of the carl of T.orrington, and his generous yi'^'O'ion of that noble peer's CO ndvitS, arc faid 10 have been fo highly w- .fented by fome of the narrtw-miuded politicians of 'that . day, that they, merely in coolequence of that open, maniy and ever-ts-bc applauded conduct, were weak and vin- didtve enough to procure his di^lCon,»d earl ofBirh. ■Mi D,a,l,;t!dbvG00gli: 1$i LIVES AND CHAlACTltS Or held under the crown. Certain Jt is, he«rat no longer employed under Williirn the Third. Anne, his fuccelTor, did juflice to his fufferings, i( petty injuries of this nature, done to » good man, can foe thought appropriate to that term. She gratefully remem- bered the family rervlces rendered to her predeceJTors, and, for the honour of royalty, contributed every thing in faer power to make him Tome amends for his former ill- treatment. After he had, with all the aggravation of in- jury, infult could produce, been difmilTcd from the fervice of his country in one line, he fcduloufly applied himfelf to it in another of which the malice of his enemies could not deprive him : this was, as reprefent alive in parliament for the r iiinty of Cornwall ; a nation in which he diftin- guilhed himfelf as a fenator, as much as he had before done as a commander. In the month of June 1702, he was appointed lord warden of Stannaries, high (teward of the dutchy, and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Corn- wall ; to which was, foon afterwards, added, the office of lieutenant-general of the ordnance. In the following year he was created a peer by the title of baron Granville, of Potheridge in county of Devon, being the ftrd per- fonage who was raifed to that rank, after the accef- flion of queen Anne. Thefe honourable and well- deferved marks of royal favour he did not long enjoy. Dying on the 3d of December 1707, without iflue, his title became cxtinA. He married Rebecca, daughter of fir Jofias Child, and widow of Charles, marquis of Worcefter. GRAYDON, John. — Wc have no information rela- tive to this gentlen^an, either as to his family or otherwife, till we find him, on the 17th of June 1686, appointed fe- cond lieutenant of the Charles galley. On the 29th oC May 1688, he was promoted to be firft lieutenaiA of the Mary ; and, on the 9th of October following, was ad- vanced to the command of the Saudadoes. Being well . attached to thofe political principles which efre admiral of the white, and appointed commander-in-chief . of the fquadron fent to the Weft Indies. Having hoilled his flag oh board the Boyne, or, as others fay, the Refolution, he failed upon this fervice on * " Foitfmoaili, June die l&b 170s. C*puin Johit Gnydon, cnminanikr of ber majefty'i llsip the Triumph, being made te»t-* aud on the 18th fpll lA with the French fquadfon, untier m'Onficur Du Cailei confiflirig of fouf ihips of fixty or feventy guns each, re- turning from the Weft Indies, in a very fhattered condi- tion, after their engagement with vice-admiral Benbowi Mr, Graydoo conceiving hitnfelf ftrifliy botind, by the tenor of his orders, to make the beft of his way to the place of his deliination, made a fignal to call off the Mountague, one of the ihips under his command) Which had adually commenced an aflion with the fterh-tnoft fliip of the enemy. This condufl*, _whirh at mod was only an iiiifortuna.tc and unintentional error in judgment^ drew on him much cenfure, which ended in his dlfmilGoil irom the fervice : but of this hereafter. The vicc-adn^Lral proceeding on his voyagei arrived Jafe at Jamaica on the flh of June following, and while on hie palTage thither was advanced to be vice-ad- jitiial of the red. Immediately on his arrival he ordered a furvey to be Riadc of the fevcral (hips under his com- mand ; and he forwarded their re-eqiiiptncht with an alacrity which could not have been produced from any other caufe than an honeft and moll hf^i^y 2^^' fQi" £l to be omitted. " Such," fays he, " was the end of this unfortiinaie ex- pedition ; in which, though it is certain, on the one hand, that he did ntn do the nation any remarkable fcrvicr ; yet it is no lefs certain, on the other, that, in rcfpefl to pro- tctSlijig the trade and the reft ol the things Jn his power, lit did all the fenice he was able. But it was his mif- fottiine, firft to feci the effefts of other men's miffakcs^ and next to be made anfwerable for them." tn March following an cnji'iiry into the condudl of this truly unfor- tnnate man having'been inflituted in the houfe of lords*, hisdifgrace and difmilTion from the fervice followed rather as a matter of eoiirfc, than as a punifhment juflly in- fliflcdonhim formifbchaviour. The tenor of ht» orders were ^ot deemed a fnfiicient excufc for the firfl part of his omlufl ; nnr the ncceffiiics of Ak ftrvicc for the latter. The exaggei-atcd charges made againrt him were fcen by his enemies in the moll glaring and culpable light; and they even enjoyed the poor faiisfadlion of depriving him afterwards of that p:nfion which his fovercign, too noble to blend misfortunes with criminality, thought the former * Od tbe 171b of March the comniincc: of Toidi, apoointcd to i»- fpeS tbe iffaii* of the ntvy, refolvcd, " tIm vtcc-adBiiiil Graydon, iriib 1 r- ■Dg vith four French fbipiia hit piiTdge to ihe WcD [ndici, md let- tiag ibem cfcipe wirhom atlacking tlicm, according 10 bis duiy,_/r«« the pntnetof huiitfiniUmi, had Seen a pTcjudice lo ihe qoeen'i fer- ^cc ind I giel' dilhoaour to the uition." Tbe next d*y they Kfolvcd likewife, " firfl, that ■da>iraI'Grt)n]Dn> Afordeily proceedings, in prel&ng men at Jamaica, and hii fcKerc ufagc of maOecsof merchant-nien and ininfpoit vcQfli tiiiderhLi eoi>> voy ihoK, bad been a grrat dircouiagement 10 the inbabiiania of tb*t illind, Uid prejudicial 10 her majrny'i fcrvicc i and fccofidljr, ihat ad- qirat Graydon haviog behaved Ditnfclf To ttl in ihii expedition to'tbe Weft Indici, vtiglit bt empleyed ne mmt at ktr meji^tjtjvia :^' wbicb ■cl'oluiioiu weiG •>g>ecd lo by tbe boufc. ..Cookie RAVAL OFFICERS OP GKKAT SXITAIH. iSj had well-dererved, and which, had flic not been mod fof cibly impelled by the clamour of hi; perfecutors, fhe, in all probability, would not have thought the extent of the latter warranted the difcontiouance of*. As to his chaiadcr, Burnet, who was far from being his friend, and has been induced to {lile him, what he calls a irutal man, is neverthelefs honefl enough to acknow- kee, that when he was offered the command in which all kis former &me was wrecked and loll, and that too under circumflances many would have (erupted to have accepted of it, as was a£tually the cafe with (ir StalTord Fairborne, Mr. Graydon, though blunt, was honourable and fpiriied enough to fay, when he accepted it, " that it was his duty to go wherever the queen thought proper to command him, and that he knew no 'diffirencc of climate when he was to obey her orders," A man capable of profcffiDg fo great and juli a fentJment we may naturally fuppofe to have been incapable of in- tentionally aifiing otherwife than moil honourably. He - died on the I2th of March 1726. GRIMSDITCH, John, — was appointed lieutenant of the Kingshfher on the 14th of April 1685. He was promoted to the command of the Half Moon firclhip on the 27th of April 1688 ; and, on the 23d of July 1688, was removed into the Lark. Zealoully adhering to the caufe of king James the Second, as well in confcquence of the more common tics of anachment, as thofe of rcli- . gion (being a ri^d Roman Catholic) which dill more for- cibly impdled him, he quitted the fervice on the 12th of December 1688, in confequence of theexprefsdircdions of William the Third. The time of Ids death is un- known. HEEMSKIRK, Lawrence Van,— is faid to havebewi made commander of the Nonfuch in the year 1688 : we are Ibongly induced to believe this a miltake, ^nd occa- * Afirr kii rrtum from ihe Well Indici he wai advanced to be ' vitte-admiril of :he red, ind under circuniftaDcei too whicli futly indiciK ibat, in the opinion boih of thf mtxD and her miniOeri, fas Sood pecfe^ljr acquilicd nf all mirrondiiQ. The dirconii nuance of '-' - nGunm* produced by* frcond iddrel*, fron ibe boufe of lord), ((ueeD, io the moadi of Februai]' 1704- £< '* L 2 lioned sue qui DolizodbyGoOgle 164 LIVES ANl) CHARACT&RS 0>' 'fioncd by an error in the date, which' we apprchenJl (lioiild be, at lean, as far back as 1 668. We fuppnfe him to have been oHginally a Dutch commahder, and moft probjWy the fame petfon who deferted that fervice in dirgrace, during the tird war with the States Genentl. He repaired immediately to England, and gave fuch informa- tion to the Englidi court as caufed it to prajc£^, anA Carry into fnccefsful execution, the attack on the iflands of die and Schelting, in the year 1667. We are in- duced to believe him to have been the fame perfoii from the circumftance of his never appearing to have been em- ployed, except in the Inftance jiift given. The follow- ing ftory, which accounts for it. Is gfvcn by Camp- bell, extiadcd from the Life of De Ruytcr, part the firl(, p. 371, 374. " One captain Hcemfkirk, a Dutchman, who fled hither for feaf of being called to an account for tniflKhaviour under Opdain, was the author of this dif- mal fcene. He was one day at court, and boaAing, in the hearing of king Charles the Second, the bloody revenge . he had taken upon his country, that monarch, with a (tern countenance, bid him withdraw, and never prefume to appear again in his prcfence. He fent him, however, a very confiderable fum of money for the fen'ice, with which he retired ^0 Vrnice," This inftance of magna- nimity ih that gcfieToiis prince has been long, and highly Applauded by the Dutch. HOSKINS, Benjamin,— was made commander of the Cleveland yacht on the 5ih of September 16S8. After the revolution ' we find him commander of feveral capital Ihips, in particular of the ReAoration of fcventy guns, in Ihti month of June 1693. From this fliip he was remov- ed, in the following month, to the Royal Willixm, a new firfl rate, mounting one hundred and fix guns,as capt. to the earl of Danby, afterwards better known by the title of mir- quis of Carmarthen, who had hotfled his flag on board her as rear-admiral of the blue. He appears to have ctniti- nued a lont; time in this very honourable command, moll probably till the peace at Ryfwic took place; and fervtd undet D,a,l,;t!dbvGpOglf KAVAL.OFFICERS OF ORBAT B2ITAIN. 165 under vaj-iovs pdmirals*, during that period, wuh very diiHnguJflied repirtatign. We do not believe he was employed after nie year 1697; but in the year 1702 went into 3 very honourable retirement, having had a penfion of ten (hillings a day, for life, fettled upon him on the jft of January. On the 8th of December, 1795, he was aifo appgintcd one of the captains of Greenwich hofpital, a nation in which he diecl pn the ;jo(h of September ^712. JOHNSON, Thomas, — was appointed fecond lieute- nant of the Succ^fs on the 33d of June 1679 ; and, on the 4th of November 1682, of the Forefight. On the 19th of June 1685, he was promoted to be firll lieutpnant of the Refcrve; and, on the 29th of Apiil 1687, of the Hampfhire. On the 30th of Auguft 1688, he was made captam of the Swan j and died, at Greenwich, on the 28ih of Oflober 1690. JENNIFER, John, — was made lieutenant of the Barnaby, by prince Rupiert, as early as the year 167a : on the 'aoih of November 1677. he was appointed to the fame (lation on board ihe+ Affiftsncc; and, on the 13th of March 1678-9, was removed into the Guernfey as fe- cond lieutenant. From the time he quitted this (liip till the loth of May 1687, he does not appear to have had any appointment; but he was, at thetimejuft mentioned, promoted to be firft lieutenant of the Nonfuch; and, on the 29ih of Auguil 1688, of the Guardland ; which (hip he was, on the i8ih of the following month, promoted to the command of. In the year i68g, he was made cap- tain of the Edgar: in this ihip he behaved with very dilUnguilhed gallantry at the battle off Beachy Head, in f la pa^ticuUr fir Divid Miicbell, vi^-*4>i>i'3l or the blue, ia th« t >A''iieo ciptatn Girdiner (fte vol. J. p. 333) was appointed com- miiKJcr of this Qiip, he procuttd Mr- Jentiifer, whom be bid formerly fecotnmc tided 10 the notice of prince ^npen, to be ippointcd Jin ieutc'nini ; ts be bid before been, when upuin Gardiner ytu made com in J rider of the Barnatiy. Mr. J. continued with bit patron till fhe lime uf hii death, inibe month of March 1679; and, after that event, the (einporary command of the ftiip devolving upon him, he (Convoyed to Tangier a fmall fleet of merchant fiiipi, which had ren- f^^Qured at Lcghuro waiting for hii protcQion. ' ■■ '■ ■ ' L 3 ' " • . whi.h L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: l66 LIVES AKD CHARACTERS OF which he unfortunately received a wound which ocCjlCi- oncd his death, and iti a manner truly lamentable, as he miferably lingered till the 2d of February 1690-1, up- wards of feven months after the fatal accident had taken place. LATON, John, — was appointed fccond lieutenant of the Faulcon early in the year 1685 ; and, on the gih of Augu ft following, was removed into the Briftol; of which ihip he was promoted to be firft lieutenant on the loth of May 1687*. On the i5ih of June 1688, he was made captain of the Lark, on the 23d of July of the Mary, and on the 22d of Odtober of the St. Aiban's ; the latter of which appointments he received from lord Dart- mouth, the commander-in-chief of the fleet. He conti- nued captain of this fhip, which appears to have been principally employed as a cruifer for a confiderable time after the revolution, and met with very confiderable fuc- ccfs in capturing a number of Ihips belonging to the enemy. He was foon afterwards promoted to the Mon- tague, a third rate ; and was unfortunately kilicdt, on the ad of January i6go-i, in a petty encounter with a large French privateer, who raflily attempted to defend herfeif againft his fuperior force. LEAKE, Sir John, — was the fccond Ton of captain Richard Leake, mailer gunner of England, an appoint- ment of conlidcraHe note, which he obtained by dint of pcrfonal merit. Sir John was born at Roiherhilhe in the • This Ihip wu one of the rqiiidrua fentwiih ihc dulieof Grifton le efcori the beirothrd queen of Foiiugi] 10 Lilhjn in the monili of Augult 1637. Mr. Li ion was, on ihis occdiion, prefenlcd. by ibe Toyal briiiceiooiii, with a very valuable diamonii riof;, an tnccdotc ia fUcIf irivial, bul rendered more confeauenilal from tde ciicumOaDce of hi) being the only officer of bii laiiK who appean ti>hav« received tbat honour. f Exlr(£l of a letier from Pljrmoath, dated Jmutry 6, 1690-1. " This day arrived here ihcir m>je(liei Oiip the Mont^ue, with t French pii», being a privateer of twenty- four guns mounted, i hat fhip took fomc dayi ago, aboui 16 league the well watd of Ulbant, after a fight of two or three huuii, in wUch captain Layiun, commander of Ibc Montague, and one man more on our Gde, were killed ; but of the French, it ii faid, between forty and fifty were killed and wounded : one buoiltcd and thirty are brought a-itaore piifoacrt." year DiailizodbvGoOglc HA VA^. OFFICERS OF CX^AT DRITAI^ 167 year 1656 ; and, following the fteps of his fjiher, cniereij very carJy into the-n«vy. ■ Hq fervcd as a midft>ipman on board the Royal Prince in the memorable Tea- fight beiweea the Englilh and Dutch, on the 10th of Aug. 1673, being then only fcvcniecn years old. At the concluiion of th^ wax, an event which took place very foun after, Mr. Leake fiJiding his hopes of preferment in the royal navy at leaft poftponed, engaged, for a fliort lime, in^ the merchant's jervice. He i^uttled it ou b~ing appointed to fuccecd his fiither as gunner of the Neptune, Continuing to reodier himfelf as confpicuous as his youth, and the peaceable difpolition of furrounding llatesj ever unfav'ou^ble to naval and military promotion, wouti} permit him, he was^ on the 24th of September 1688, ap- pointed commander of the Fire Drake firelhip. In this weird he was prcfent at the battje of Bantry Bay, wher« he found an opportunity of performing a fignal (^rvice by firing one of the Frcncn line of battle fhips, Cotnniande« by the chevalier Coetlogon. This he was enabled to do by a^ inveiition of hi^ lather's, called a cufhee piece, a fpccies of c^nnoi), throwing a fmali fhell, or carcafs, in- Jtead of Qiot. Admiral Herbert, who commandcti io cliicf, did every jultice to his merit, by appointing hlm> two days after tho l^sttle, to command the DarjmoutI} frigate of forty guns. On the 28th of July following he relieved the city of LoEidondcrry, at that time t^^d f re (Ted by king Jaiii<;s*^ army, conlilting of jo ,000 men. He,effc£led tliis fer- ric* in fpite of every impediment a very powerful an'd a£Uve enemy could contrive, to impede, and prevent hit fuccefs. The Dartmouth being paid off at the clofe of the year, Mr. Leake was appointed captain of the Oxford of fifty-four guns ; and, in the njonth of May following, was promotctiJO the command of the Eagle, a third raFc of feventy guns. He was odc of the njcnib''rs of the court-martial appointed for the trial of the gallant bijt unfortunate earl of Torringtoo, and proved Kaifelf, on ;that memorable occiirion, to. be one of thole truly valu- able perfons, who, ever bept on the Rii& pefformance of their duty, ever zealous in the purfuit of true honour, arc ^cither to be InUmiduted by the clamours of difappoinied LllulNzcuyCOOglC l68 LIVES AND CHAIACTIKS OP fadion. Or allured by the plufing profpcd of courtly favour. At th« battle off La Hnguc, being Rill commauder of the Eafle, he continued to preferve that character for gallantry he had before fo induftrioufly laboured to acquire. The bare recital of his lofs is a fuiEcient proof of tnc very oon- fpicuous ftiarc he bore in the aftion ; fcventcen of the Eagle's guns being difmoimtcd, fcventy of her men killed and one hundred and fifty wounded. On the Monday followtngi four days after the aftion, fir George Rookc ihifted his flae into the l^gle, difablcd as (he was, for the purpofe of deUroying thirteen of the enemy's (hips under capeLaHogue i which fervlce beingeffeAually performed, the fleet returned home; and the Eagle being nut out of commillion, Mr. Leake was appointed to the cotnmand of the Plymouth^ a third rate ; from which he was foan afterremovedintotheOlfory, a fecond rate of ninety guns. This Ihip proving leaky it was ordered round toGhaiham for repair. Early in the enfuing fpring, captain t/cake, ftill continuing in the OfTory, joined the fleet deftined for the Mediterranean fervice under the command of admiral RuflTel. ^ut the French, ftill fmarting under their defeat at La Hogiie, fufFercd themfelves to be pent up quietly in Toulon, t^o other advantage therefore was derived from the expedition, than that of the Englifh fleet tiding tri- umphant, t>vo years fucccflively, unmolefted by the enemy ; confequeptly no opportunity offered itfelf to capt. Leake of doing more than that, which is a bare cold fatisfadtion to 4 man of an enterprifing turn, " maintaining, en ell oeea- Ji'-ns, iht charaiier af a diligent and attrntive officer." The fame cauiloiis line of condu3 being purfucd by the French during the refl of the war, the fame pm'erty of enterprifo of courfc attendtd the meafurcs oi the Englilh. The peace of Ryfwic taking place Toon after (S;pt. %», 1697) the Offbry was, on the 5th of December, put oiit of com- mririon* when captain l^eake was out of employ, though for the firft time fince" he had become a mval commander, in the year of the revolution. On the death of his father, which happened in the month of July 1696, his friends niiich wifhcd to get him appointed hi"; fucccflbr as niafter gunner of England; and aduiiral KuflLl in particular, wrote to the carl uf Romney, * "■ who i;,u,i,;.du,C00glc IfAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 169 who w?s, at thattijne.mafter-general of the ordinance, foli- citing the appointment for hiiM. The application would, no doubt, liavfr been fuccefsful; but having been made without the knowlege of captain Leakei fo was it with- out his approbation alfo. He declined, however, the Xood and well-meant offer of his friends, on thi$ occaliuOf in the handfomed terms : but in a Ihort time wearied with that inactivity produced by peace, and which mult ever be irkfomc to a man whofe life had, till then, been fpent in aflive employment, he turned his thought; to- wards procuring the office of commiHioner of the navy. He was dllTuaded from this intention by his Friend admiral Churchill, and appointed to the command of the Kent, a third rate, in May 1699. The peace flili con- tinuing, he was put out of commillion in the Februaiy following. In the beginning of the year 1701, on the profpeft of a frefti war with France, lie was appoinlcd to the Berwick of feventy guns; and, after a fecond twtlveT month of ina^ivc feriicc, was again put out pf cpmmif- fion in January 1701-2. ' The hour now approached when the infulting and tur- bulent behaviour 01 Louis the XI Vth caufed him to eiK ter into a more bufy fcene of life. On the -preparatiQi) forwarjult before the death of king William, he was recommended, by his old and (leady friend, admiral Churchill, as' the fiite(t man in the ftrvice to be captain to the earl of Pembroke, at that time appointed lord high admiral ; and who never having tteen bred to the fea^ con- feqyently required the extraneous afliftancc of the freatell profeltlonal abilities he could mocure, in aid of is own natural gallaiUry and fpirit. The death of king William, which happened almolt immediately after w^s, prevented his ever t;oing to fea in that Itation j and caufed not only his removal, but that of the earl of Pembroke alfo, in order to make room for the appointment of Geoi^, Erince of Denmark^ for whom, it is faid, that office bad een longdefigned. Captain Leake was, howevi:r, ap« pointed to the command of the Aifeciaiion, a fecond rate, the very day he was removed from his former liatiiwif and, in three weeks afterwards, commodore of a fqiiadroQ dellined tor Newfoundland. On this occafion he le- ftioved fiom the A^iaiion to the Exeter, a founh iat« DolizodbyGoOgle 170 tlVES AHDCHAXACT£KS OF of Tixty guns; the former fliip being loo Urge for the fcrvicc he was now going upon. He pcrfctnned every thing that the moil fanguine expe3attoD could have formed to itfcif ; iuiving, in thecourfeof his fummer's cmife, takea or dellroyed upwards of fifty of the enemy's ihips and TefTels, as well as completely routed them from all their confiderable fcttlements on the Ihorc. On the gth of December following he was appointed rear-admiralof the blue ; and, in the next month, cominandei-in-chief at Spithead. Still continuing in the fame current of pro- motion, he was> in the beginning of March, advanced to be vice-admiral of the blue. The naval campaign of 170J furniflied 00 incidem worth commemorating. 'J'he vice-admiral accompanied fjr Cloudefley Shovel to the Mediterranean, but the latenefs of the feaibn prevented all exploit. The fleet returning in the month of November, the vice-admiral arrived in the Downs jufl before the great ftorm •, which, notwithftanding the accident of tjic Rcrto- . ration, a third rate, driving athwart his hawze, he was, from having ^aken timely precaution, fortunate enough fHned to convoy the troops to Lifbon; where, having arrived with his charge in perfect fafety, on the 2d of March, he put himfell under the command of fir GeorgQ Rooke, who htd failed. thither fome time befurc. On th0 27th of April they quitted the Tagus, to which they were returning after an unfuccefsful cruife in the Medi- terranean \ but, at a council of war held on the t7th at June, that refolution was changed : and, after fomc far* ther confultation?, it was refolved, as it is faid, at the exprefs iaftance aad advice of fir John Leake, to attempt Gibraltar. The fuccefs of this enterprife is known to all. - In the month of Augufl fir John Leake commanded the van divilion of the combined fleet at the battle of Mahff, his (hip, the Prince George, beipg the fourth in * Bv which pre-cminciit name it 11 'genenll]' koowo and diOiat DolizodbyGoOgle MAVAl OFFICSRS OF GRBAT; BRITAIN. IJI the line. After a dofc ailion of four hours he compelled. monf. (I'lmfrevillefVice-adniiral of the white and blue, to bear away. He was foon after followed by the reft of the white and blue, or van fquadron of the French. On the return ^the fleet to Gibialtai after the engagement, fir John Leake was appointed, by. fir Geoige Rooke, to take the command of the fquadron left for the protc^ion of that place. On this occafion he Ihifted his flag from the Prince George to the Nottingham, a fourth ratCji the, former (hip being fcnt to England to be repaired. Having, while he was refitting the fquadron at Lifbon^ received advice that Gibraltar was attacked by tke French, he ufed the utmoft dil^atch in getting ready for fea : and being joined by a reinforcement of Dutch Ihips. as well as by Tome Englifli men of war, he failed on the afih of OQober upon that fervice. Having made his palfage in four days, he had the good fortune to furprifc, m Gibraltar Bay, the enemy's light fquadnm, their line of battle (hips having failed to the weitward fomc days before; fo that the French only loft, on thisoccafion, two frigates of thirty-dx guns, one of fixteen, a (ireOiip, and feveral fmp.ller vclTels, which run on (bore, and were burnt to prevent their falling into the hands of the Englifti. The garrlfon being thus relieved, fir John continued to af- Ibrd it every countenance and a(Ii(buice in his power, till certain inielligence of the enemy's making every prepara- tion to attack him, with a force fo fuperior that re(iitarce would be altnoft fniitlefs, rendered it nece{raryforhi[n to quit the bay, in order to meet his reinfurcemerts that| were daily cxpefted from Ejigland and LiJbon. Owing to thofe impediments, and contrary accidents which ail naval tranfaflions are ever liable to, (ir John did not meet ■ the convoy of troops which were on theirpafTage from Li(bon, guarded by four men of war. Thefe, on the other hand, were unlucky enough to fall in with the French fleet off Cape Spartel ; but Fortune, aided by good conduA, favouring them, they got fafe into Gibraltar with the lofs of one trdnfport only. Sir John arrived at Li(bon in January following, and ufed the utmod diligence in rehtting. Having been reintoiced, by fir Thomas Dilkes, with five tnen of war from England, he hoiAed his flag. _,.„,™:,., Cookie fjt LIVES AND CHAIACTEKS Of ■«s vicc-i^mira] of the while •, on board the Haniphwj Couit of feventy guns ; and, on the 6th of March, failed with the fleet, confifting of ihirly-fivc rail oF the line, twenty-three of which were Englifh, the refl putch and Portuetiefe. On hfs entering Gibraltar Bay he found the Frcncli admiral, Ponti, endeavouring to cfcapc *ith his fqiiadron i but giving chace to them the whole were takcfj or deftroyedt. In confequence of this viftory the ficge " H)*i|ig received, by fir Thomai Dilket, bit eominiffion a: i^dmiral of ibe white, and connnindei- in- chief in (he Mediterr t " St. Jamu't, April ai, i70j. Tliit day came in letien Trent fir John Leake, dated m the Bay of Gibraliw, ihesifi of Marth O.S. that give iht following account ; >' On the 6ih of that month he railed from Liaon with the con- federate Tquadron under his command. The 9th, ai noon, he got in fight of Cape Spartel ; but- noi having day enough to reach Gibraltar, he by by 10 prevent being difcovercd from the Spanilh Ihere, 10 ttjc eiitl lie night lurprifc ihc eneniy in the Bay eirlv the next morning. Tbc weather continued fair till after midaight ; |hcn ibe wind Ihifted fioiti the N.N.W. 10 the S.W. with much rain iiid thick weather, wbkh hindered hil making fjil fo foon » he intended. About half an bonr pad five in the morning the fquadron got within two milcj of Cape Caberita, and difcovered only five fail iniking oot of the Bganti ind, after a lety little refinance, Ac fifuck, the Newcaflle'i boat setting firft oa bond ber. Bcfoip one o'clock the Ardent and the Marquii woe takea by two Diwcli Men of war; and tbe Magnanimout, with the VailTeau, driven alhorc > Klilc to ihewellward oFMarbclU; the former, which the baron Dc Pntiti wi| on board of, run alhorc with fo much force, tbat all her mafti came by the board ai Toon ai Ihc ftiuck upon the siound, anil <*ly her fau!l, from the taffiil to the midfbipt, remained above water, which ibe enemy fct Jiie to in the night, a) lbi;y did 10 the VinOcau the , next mo^niug. After ihii engagement was over, our fauadion go( farther from the Chore, and on the iBih looked inin Malaga road, Mrtiere her majefly's fhips, tbc Swallow snd Leopard, chaled * French fnerchaniman on (hore, of ibout ibree hundrfd toni, wfaitb ibe enemy . burnt. The wind continued wcHerly for fomc dayi, with very bai| Ift^albci, which drove our fquadioa up ai high u Rockctia, where ihqy aucbore4 LllulllzcduyCOOgli: HAVAt OFFICERS OP CRfiAT BRITAIN, I73 Was immediately raifed ; and the prince of Heflc, ai i inark of the high fenfe he enlerlained of the fcrvice ren- dered him by the fleet under fir Johri's coinmand, pre-- Tented him with a gold cup, which he had purpofely prodired. After havirtg performed diis eminent fervicc fir John Leake returned to Lilbon, where he was joined, by fir Cloudefley Shovel, with the armament from England*, in the month of June. On the 23d of the fame month they failed for the Mediterranean to aflift king Charles in the farther reduction of Spain. The grand objedl of attack was Barcelona, which having lurrendered, fir Cloudefley Shovel returned, with the main body of the fleet, to England, leaving lir J. Leake orice more com- mander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. After having en- countered the gneatell difficulties and hardfhips, from the accumulated misfortunes of fliort allowance, contrary winds, and fic^knefs, he arrived from thence on the i6th of January at Lifiion. The ufual bufmefs of refitting bein^ entered upon with the uimoft difpatch, on the 25ih of February tie failed on an expedition againft the Spanifh flota at Cadiz ; but, owing to the unaccountable conJuft of the Portuguefe, who had laid an embargo on all fhips, and which he was unwilling to break through, he did not pafs the bar till the 27th. On his arrival ofF Cadiz he ancbond rotly-eighi houri, and then put ro Tei igiin, bul could not get back tulheliy of Gibniur before ihe div on which thefeietiert tre dated. Her najcfly't (faipi the Kent, Oifbrd, and Eagle, Ind joined tbcm tvro diyi before off Malaga. The Expedition and ho. iher had, oti ihe a7th, chafed aOiore, near Cape de GatI, a Fivnck icctchanlman of iboul two hundred and fifnp tont, and tbirly guo^ bound 10 [he Welt Indiei, 10 which ihcy (et fire. The Alhirance and Bedford had taken two fallcei. Sir John Leake iddi, (hat the teft of ih« enemy't fliipi, which were at Gibraltar, bad been diirea fiom ibeir aachort foaie dajri before he arrived tbcrc; and, ■■ u believed, were in the Malaga road when hii G]uadron engajjad ihe other five 1 bul, upon hearing ibe report of the gum, had cut rfaeir cables le (he befl of their way 10 TouloD ; but of tbii, however, had no certainty, fie vrrilrt nriher, that the enemy'i fotcei befim Gibraltar had drawn off fume of the cannon from (heir baticriei, and I all probability were either going 10 raife the Itegc, or (oium it in • blactade." • Sir John's old Ship, the Fiitice George, wai ose of this fleec He itnmcdiBtcl} returned to ber 11 bit flag Ihip. found DolizodbyGoOgle 174 LIVES AND CHA&ACTEK.< Ot found the flow had, through the treachery of the 'Porttt- guefe, been apprized of his intended vifit, and left that place the day before, wilh fo favourable a wind as rendcretf It impoflible for him to overtake them. On the -29th of March he arrived in Gibraltar Bay, where he received a ]ettar from king Charles, informing him of the extreme diftrcfs he was reduced to, being cTofely befiegcd in Bar- celona, and prefiing him to come, with the utmoll expe- dition, to his relief. Contrary winds prevented fir John from entering on this fervice till the 13th of April, when, i)aving been joined by fir George Byng wilh a reinforce- ment from England, he failed, and arrived olT Barcelona on the 26th. The French fquadron under the count De Tholoufe, according to their wonted good fortune, having been informed of fir John's approach the night before, retired with the utinoft precipitation. Five days afterwards the duke of Anjou raifed the fiege, abandoning to his rival all his cannon, camp equipage, and military Rores. This a£l, as well the moft glorious as the moft fortunate, being atchieved, fir John (ailed for Valencia, from whence he proceeded to Carthagena ; which im- portant place he immediately reduced and took poffeflion of. From thence he proceeded to Alicant, wMch was ftonned by the boats of the fleet on the 28th of July ; but the caftle continued to hold out till the a+th of Auguft. After the redudioh of the caftle of AUcant, fir J. Leake failed for Yvica and Majorca ; both wTiich having fur- rendered to him, be prepared to return to Eiigland a few days afterwards, and arrived in perfect fafety, after encotmtcring a dreadful flonn in the bay of Bifcay. It is needlefs to (ay, that after fo fucccrsuil an expedition he was received with acclamations by the populace, and with marks of the bighell favour by his fovcreign. Piioce George of peiimark, then lord admiral, pre- fcotcdhim, as a token of hisefieem, with a very vaJiiabIc diamond ring and a gold-hilied fword- The queen gave him a more Tubltantiat mark of her eftccm, by ordering tiipi a thoufaad pounds. The following year fir John Xeake commanded in the Channel. The Freneh having jno fleet at fea, Initcontentingthemfelveswiih little defuU tory expeditions againll our convoys, la which (notwiih> landing fii John s vigilance) they were too fuccefsful ; DolizodbyGoOgle KAVAI. OFFIC£>S OF CHEAT BXITAIN. IJ^ BO ojipommtty offered ilfelf of performing any tmtC- . aAioD worthy notice. But, in the year after, hav? ing been appointed admiral of tht white, and com- mander- in-chief of the fleet, he was again fcnt to tbf Mediierrancan ; and in his paifagfrto Barcolona, having fallen in with a fleet of victuallers belongii^ to -the enemy, and taken fevcnty-five lail of thetn, he was. en- abled, a fccond time, to refcue Ling Charles, and Barce- lona, from dedniftion i and as he had in the former inCtance delivered them from the fwords of their anta- fonifts, fo on the prefent occafion did he favc them from the no leffi certain and horrid enemy, famine, brought on thtia in confeijiience of the duke of AnjouV fuccefs af AJmanza. Barcelona being relieved, he failed for Italy, whence he convoyed king Charles's con fort to him, it^e* iher with a yery conHderable reinforcement of troops which accompanied her. Having landed his important .charge in fafety, his next enterprize was the reduSion of the iShad of Sardinia, which y/x quickly followed by aa equal fuccefs in an expedition to Minorca. Thefe fer- vices (which were honoured at home with a medal ftnicE puTpofely on the occaGonJ being performed, and the feafoo far advanced, he prepared to return again to England, where he arrived the latter end of O^ober. During his al>fence in the Mediterranean he had been appointed one of the comicil to prince Georgp of Denmark, in his ca- pacity of lord high admiral : but he hardly arrived time enough to takepplTefnon of his otBce, his highnefs dying on the aSth of October, in fix days after fir _|ohn's letum to Portfmouth. In the enfuing campaign he was again appaan}cd adinjial of the fleet, by the earl of Pembroke, fucceUbr to prioce George ; and, on the a4th Of May foU lowing, was conflituted, by patent, rear-admiral of Great Britain. This appointment, highly honourable in itfelf, was rendered mil more fo by the very honoundile manner ia which it was bellowed on the prefent occafion. Queen Anne had purpofely kept it vacant ever fince the death oi. fir Cloudeuey Shovel ; and now conferred on fir J. Leake without the fmallcft interpoGtion on the part of her mi-, oiders, or application from his friends. In beftowing, ihcLufed, as js reported by Campbell, the fuUawing high C9m^imEiit, " that fit wai fill in mind cf if by tht voict tf L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: ty6 LIVES AND CRASACTCRS 07 ^ the ftoph" He continued in his command id the Bntifh feas, but without performing any exploit worth cohrimemorating, fof which the only excufe is, his hating no opportunity of doing it. On the 8th of November the office of lord high admiral twing put into commifTion, fir J. Leake was included in it, andadmiraiAylmer was appointed admiral andcommander- in-chief in his room. On lord Orford's rcfignation he became (regularly) firft commiflioncr of the admiralty i this Kft,howevtr, we arctoId,in his Lifepiibli(hedby Sephen artin Leake, efq. " Ht ihought pro}^ ladtclint,vjijhing ta avoid Iht odium Jametimes attached, through iH-fucctfsf I9 the tffice, and contrnlinghitnfelf with performing the office of chair- man as a mere private member only.'* In January he Was again appointed admiral and commander-in-chief of th« fleet ; but the French keeping in poit, as they had been of late accuilomed, the only operation performed wis, an harml^s cniife. The enemy continuing to perfevera in the fame conduA diiQng the remainder of the war, the J~ame compulfive ina. P-S9- Mr. Ley was appointed MeMtenanr of tnc Dartmouth' nnthe i6th of April 1678; of the Onnga Tree fome- timc early in 1682; and, during the fitme year^ of tW Monnaid : to this vcffcl he was twice afterwards com- raiilionedas lieutenant, trill on the iltof Time 1684; and^t fecondly, on the tfi of April 1689. On the 24lh of Oifiober 168S, he wasproinotcdto be captain of tlie fame fliip.. Afrcr the revolution, his abilities and gallantry being, held in the highell eflimation, procured liim the command, at different times, of feveral capitar (hips. In 1690 he was captain of the Portland, one of the fleet feni to the Mediterranean under vii-c-adniiral Killegrew, who, juft bsfore his return, detached captain Ley, with th« Portland, Greenwich, and Falcon,, to Scandasoon, as convoy to a fleet of mcichant-lbips. In i'i93 he wa»' captain of the Albemarle of ainety gans. As an officer, in whole condu^ and bravery the greatelf tntft could ba repofed, he was Rationed in the line as one of the feconds' to lord Berkeley when vice-admiral of the blue, and' when that noble ciMnmander was, in the month of Julji 169 ;^, promoted to be admiral of the blue,.as fucceiTor to fir'JohibAlhby,lic was wniovcd iatoiUe fame Itation i» thas LllQIIIZcduyGOO^IC NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BHITAIN. 179 that divifion, at the exprefs defirc, as it is faid, of the admiral, who had conceived ihe higlieft opinion of him. In 1696 he commanded tiic Dutchefs, a (hip of the fame rate as the Albemarle, and was (laiioned by iir C. Shovel, who had hoiked his flag on board ihu Queen as admiral of (he blue, to be one of bis feconds durirg the naval opera- lions of the main fleet in that year. 'Ihc warlike efforts of each party, which had for fome time been rL-markably languid, acquired, foon afterwards, a temporary cefTat'ion from the peace of Ryfwic. When fir George Rooke was appointed admiral of the fleet dodined for the expedition againfl Cadiz, he nomi- nated captain Ley to be his firft captain, a moft honour- able. Hation, and, doriiig the time of af^ual fcrvice, of equal rank with a rear-admiral, fo that we find him a conftant member of the fcveral councils of war held during that period. He did not furvive the unfortunate failure of this enterprife, dying at Cadiz on the 19th of Sep- tember, being the very day fir G. Rooke put to fea from (hence, finding the mofl dillant hopes of fuccefs at an end. MILLISON, Gabriel,— was appointed third lieute- nant of the Royal Catherine yacht in the year 1673. We hear nothing farther of him till the year of the revolution, when we find him made firfl lieutenant of the Refotu- lion. On the 14th of December in the fame year he was promoted, by lord Dartmouth, to the command of the Kathcrine yacht. We do fiot believe he ever held any naval appointment after the acceflion of William the ITiird, MtJNDEN, Sir John, — is very frequently miflaken, by hiftorians and others, for fir Riclurd Munden, of whom we have already given fome account, vol. i. p. 24.3. He was, njoft probably, of the fame family ; but, certainly, was no immediate relative. Sir Johif was appointed fecdnd lieutenant of the St. David on the 30th of Nov. 1677 i on the i6ih of July 1681, he was made lieuenant of the Conftant Warwick ; on the r7lh of June 1685, of the Mary Rofe; and, on the 31II of July 1686, of the Charles galley. On the 23d of July 1688, he was pro- tnotcd, by king James, to the comm:ind of the Half Nloon flrtflhip ; and, by lord Dartmouth, on the 14th of -De- cember, to that of the Edgar, Some perfons have inll- M 2 nuatcd L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: IBO IIVES AND CHAKACTERS Of fiuated he was much negleflcd by king William, in tlitf early part of his reign, from a ftifpicion of his being at- tached t(j the Roman Catholic peifiufion. The very feverfe we believe to hav; been the fafl. We are niucn ftrengthened (n this opinion by (evcist circumdances, and indeed his fall appointment is alone fufficlent to fefute this vague charge. All fnch officers as lafcourerf under the fmafleft fufpicioti of ailachment to the late feing, or whofe principles, both political ami religious, were not known to be flricily t^ongenia! to the cauie anJ fntereft of the prince of Orange, were ordeicd to be dif- JnilTcd froifi thciT commands, and their places fiippliej by fuch men as had been aflive in the canfe, or coidd, at fcaft, he depended upon for therr cordial, and ftrenuous' fiipport. Neverthelefs, although this appointment fuffi- ciemfy proves the fallacy nf the above fuggeftion, yet, for, fome few years, captain Munden appears to have made his way in the fervice rather Ilowly. He did not long ;ari ar:crwards, a will l>e inert aooa. fiatiott L;,Q,i,;.du,GoO^C NAVAl OFFICERS OF CREAT BRITAIS. iSl Ration till the latter end of the year 1700, having arrived In the Downs ^'Jfh his little fquadron, on tlie 2d of No- yember. His diVgenpe snd attention, while employedio Xhis fervi(;e, (lront;ly recommended him to the favour and notice of king William; fo that, on the i+th of April 1 701 , he was promoted to be rear-admiral of the blue ; and, on iheihe 30th of June fbllo\ving,to be rear-admiral of ihp lyhije, and commander oftbc fquadron appointed to convoy his majcQy to Holland. The kmg cmbarKcd on the follow- ing day, and immediatelv conferred the honour of knight- hood on the rcar-iadmiral, who went on board the Wil- ]lam and Mary yaeht to receive him. This period ap- pears the zenith of fir John's fortune. Soon after the ac- ceflion of queen Anne, he was appointed commander of a f^adron ponfil^ing of eight third rales, a fourth rate, and (wo frigates, fitted out for the purpofc of intercepting a fquadron of French ftjips of yvar, that were expefled to fail from the Groynp for the Spjiyflj Weft Indies, having on board the new viceroy of Mexico. The former pray hie abfohite ruin- Sir John failed, on the i2th of May 1702, with fecret ittftniitione, which ,he ivaj not to communicate to the fcvcraj captains under him till he'reached a certain lati- jude. On the i6ih he arrived off the coall of Gallicia, and difpat'ched the SaliHrnryand Dolphin a-hcad to pro-r cure intelligence, aTcrvicc which they were linable tQ iffcft. A fecond attempt was more fortunalc ; but the information prociircd in conrequence of it, was fuch as> in the end, cpmplFtely frul bated all hopes of fuccefs. Th); fiibftaoce of it was, that thirteen French ihips of vvar were daily expelled -at tjic Grpvne from Rochelle. Sir John immediately made every aifpofitjon prudence, and Ttis bed' Ikill coiild fug^eft, to enable him to intercept ihtm. Xin the following day Uc^got fight of the e.nemy ^•|yi--unJer'"fliore,^ between the capes Prior and Or- L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ic l8l LIVES AND CHARACTERS Of tugal. The fqiiadron confifted of fourteen fail; but though fir John immediately chaced them, and was fup- ported in his piirfuit, wiih the utmoft alacrity, by the commanders under him, the French, fuperior both in numbers and force, dcciincd a conteft, and were content to feek their fafety in flight, which their great fuperi- - ority in failing enabled them to cffefl. There might be much misfortune in this ; but we can- not difcover the lealt criminalhy, nor does the latter part of his condtid appear, in any degree, to merit fo haril) and cruel an appellation. Immediately on the cfcape of the enemy he called a council of war, to which he fairly fubmittcd the intelligence he had received, and the con- sideration of what meafures he Ihould hereafter purfue; The determination was unanimous; and, confidering the circumltances, appears to have been unavoidable. TTierv Were, at that time, in the harbour of the Groyne, feyenteen of the enemy's fhips: thcfe were flanked by numerous, and ■well conftmfted batteries, which defcndea the entrance of the harbour, of iifelf narrow and extremely dangerous, After maturely weighing thefe fcyeral obfiacfes and impe- diments, it was decided the fquadron fhuuld immediately leturn into foundings for tlie proteftion of trade. Want of provifions compelled fir John to return into port on the 20th of June ; having eflefled nothing, during his ab- fcncc, more than the capture of two merchant fhips, from Martinico, richly laden. Univerfal clamour induced an immediate legal enquiry, and that enquiry produced an honourable acquittal. The court-mariiaf, convened fpr the purpnfe of invef- tigating the conduct of this pcrfecutcd ana utifprtunatf man, was held on board the Q^i^n, a licond rate, at . Spithead, on the 13th of July. Sir Cloudefley Shovel was prefident; and while no innocent mpn, on one hand, couid poflibly defire a more upright, confcientious, and honourable judge, fo, on the other, no perfon, whofe condud in the line of fervicc would not bear the inoft critical examination, could hope the fmalleft 'relaxatiob from the cenfure or puniftiment his delinquency deferved, or flatter himfelf that the fmalleft pun into the Groyne with the Suadron wai impta^i cable, we being alTflrangeri to Ac going in, at' fo to the formidable Itrcngth of the place; it betnif foul ground and a narrow entrance, at appcati by the wpggoner; mid thu if the fguir iWi coald f(« in, iherc wu no appearance of gelling out again, be- CMile there It Do going in and coming out aiiin but with diffennf windt, fo that inllcad of dning fervicc it might prove of great prejit- dice, by ^he loft of fo canGdenfalc a G]ii«dron of Ihipi. However, thai (he intended fcrvice mighi be mod eoovenienily cxecolcd, it wif thought beft 10 lie tviih the Uiuadron, To ai'not to be difcovered, R{. teen Icaguei norib-weA (lom Cape Priqr, il^ eaAenimoft cape at the entrance of the Groyne, and fend i frigafe into the Jfaore logain ia- tetligence | and then, if it wu found ih^af the French were got lo ibe * Groyne, to lie in the ^>t way of Cape Flniner to iniercepi ihem, hut - if not come lo the Groyne ; ihen to cruife in a (laiioo off Cape frior, in order lo intercept ibcm ai they came from France for the Groyne, lindif we gainpd iotelligence thaithefhipi of France, with the fold ieri fif Spain, were failed fur ihc WeA lodiei, then lo prpcxeid Into the (bunding*, to (ecnre our Iride. according to iny ordcn. " Thii refuli wa* figned by all the capiaiiu of the fquadron the day *tiove-men lioDcd . " From the t aih to the i jih wai fpeiit ia making ibe bcQ of our tayay ($.41^ land; and gn the i jib, in ihe evening, wemadeibe land; 9 nd immediately I g fea lyiih the Grit fair wind; and that the Falcon, foF- nierly an EngliOi man of war, wat already failed for the Groyne; and fbal there wtte.five fail more at Rochruid, all ihree.decked Ihipi. He further faid, that the (bi^p( from Kuchelle were bound for the Groyne lo uke in foldiert, and carry Ihcip to Neiy Spain." " So foon as 1 had gained ihii inielligcfice I made the bed of my way with the fquadron, by makinRf il the fail I could lo get the wind. that being ihougbi the liel) place to intercept the enemy (aithcwinf waa) ihii were bound for the Groyne. " The fl^th, in the mumii));, >he fconii brought to me a Spanifti txni, in which wata prieQ or friar, and feveral women. 1 examined (be pried and boatman, and boib of ihem tuld me that there were three French men of war ai the Groyne ; and that the duke of Albuquerke (rat there with two tboufand foldiert) and that ibcy daily expefled twelve fail more of French men of war, vhich were to carry ibe duk^ and thcle fbrceiiip Ntw Spain, DiailizodbvGoOglf ISO LIVES AND CH^EACTItS 09 Itc did not jendeavour to force hit way into that harbour ;uid dellroy them there i thirdly, that he called pff the Salifbury, " I wu«l»d to mW jviih ihe confirmilton of what I brard tb« Jay before, and ni*(lc m1 the haflc in my power ro ^ to ihe place be- lore-ineniioncii to inieicept tb«R>, and prevent their grtiitig inio tbe pioynei and ordered the two fiigiiri to look welloui lo windward cf tbe iquadioD, c«rnrAly flying, md in tbe cveniog we were elofe in wiih.ibe (bore to the eaftward of Cape Prior, noT bcins above two Jci^Dei off il, wbicb wai aa near ai I dared to come with the rquadron. Then wc lacked and Bood oft, caking in oi^r topfails that we might Dot be far irara ibe Ibore ia tbe inomingi all we went off wai not above ten milet. At three in l^e siorniog we lacked and flood in »)^n with all the fail we could Biake. The wcfiber remained haif till about eight o'clock (the tSth day) ^beo it cleared up. and we bad l-gbi of fevcni fail to tbe S. E. ^. of lu, clofe in yith the land. 1 ^mmediaiely me ihcia cbace (a[i4 made ihcni in all fouriccir fail) ^d, not witblf audi M all xnf care and induflry, tbey ouirfailcd uf muqb, Bot into the Groyne, to my great ericf and iroubii: for not having beiier foceeb, loou^ ) an ftiitfied ip my confcieoee, ii are all the captaint of the I^um1to(), ibai do body could have a£led witii fc prudent care than I did- ■ Give me leave to obferve (p yofi, thai my inllruSiofii gave nie liberty to lie off Ca^ Fiaifier, in cafe ibe fliip* cxpefied at iba Groyne wcfe noi arrived ibere, and ttieie lo eruizc in expcSaiii ifaem, or any other place where I thought con vcoicnt, It appeaiiveiy plain, by my inielligence, thai ihe (hipi were not arrived ii the Groyn« , ., . __ .1 n __JT_._L.L "■ "- ,c- FiriBer, n the coaff ; and I mighl have gone off Cai Where i nao a verv (air urulpefi pf gaining great advantage I felf Bod alTo to thofe that were wiib me; but belieyinf;, in my gelling ricbei, and proceeded wifh tlic biuadron id the mai) probable I the enemy ; by which I hope it d< lily ip do the fame, for haii ot intcrtepting and Gahiing the enemy {ai I waifalfly fc'andaltacd for) ii it naiuial eoMigh foe any bodyio believe place lo iniercepi the enemy ; by which I hope it doih plainly appear thai my defign wai h"'li'y l|0 do the fame, for had I entertained aii^ other thought than that ot in that I could have gone to the other place, which 1 mtghi have dope, and complied with my oideri, not have fccn the enemy, made my for- mne, and, il may be, have been commended for my pioeeedingi. " It M Dot a hard milter to prFfuade you, ihal if I had not done iny duly, (he capiaioa, ihai have not go( one groat in the cruifc, vouM )iave been ai rc^•dv at any body to have aecufcd me, it bcin); io my pmrer tocTuifc where they might have got moneys but, inilead of beinif accufed by any mau of lenfe, all the reporl, which wai fo in- iluQnoufly fpread, only came from an ignorant maflet of a fmark, »ba muft ha allowed, by tbe mob, to be a l)eller judge ihan nyfelf a*d all the captaio* at ibe f^adron, , "It DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL OFFICEK* Of GK1SAT BKfTAIH, itj SaliibuTYt i>7 fignal* when engag^ with a French Ihip of (cventy guns : and, fourthly, that he had hbtraled fmeral men aruf ■women, laktn in a Spanijh veffil, which might hmx ^ctn tSfcbmifeifiir Juch Eng}ijh as tvtrt thtn frijentrs at th» Crept. On thefe heavy charges it was Driefly decideil that his dirpofition made for intercepting the enemy, a| vc)l as the feveral meafures taken by him for that purpofe, were proper, prudent, and irrepTehenfible ; tnat the att^k of the Groyne, and the (hips (heltcring there, was neither prudent nor prailicable ; that the calling off the Salilbury wai oonfortnabtc to his inJlniaions; and that the relcafe of his frifaturs, which were women, and per- fons in no degree to be confidered in an hojiile light, was conformable to the reflations eflablilhed, even in vrar, betweeq all fuch nations as were deemed civilifed*. National I^onour, however^ as it was called, demanded a facrifice; and fir John, who had been fairly and honour- fibiy acquitted \^y the martial jury of his countrymen, was afterwards rendered amenable to a civil extra-judicial auth(ltity, which aflunied to itfclf ifee right of pafiing on it, unqualitied and irrevocable condemnation. The notiRcatittn of his difmiflion was given in the Ga- zette, No. 3835, and |n the following violent terms. " The queen having required the proceedings upon the " It it an etTy mtt'cr for any flanderi-by to (vj, after » dcCgn hu Biircirried, that, if you bid been on Lhii place, inflrad of ibat, yon. had infallibly fuccMdrd. And ihe fame thin); ni'gbi haic hcen laid of mcj that if I had nat Uin lurking qnder ihc fliore we muD hive fallEn 1(1 with them ; by whict) jt ajpeari that aficr-thoiighu are alwayi * But if it be contiderei) that the fea ia 3 mifa CT ., . wllJb _ ,._._._. " AM hopct being over of iaierccpiing the enemy, ibey beinfc got jntufo HrODg a harbour, a ad To diflkuuatoad fay it, thai we could not get at them; and flaying on that cqiH waiiing for iheir coming ODt ■gain, ^au\d be io no purpofe ; it wa) the general opinion of all ihp captaiu, that we fliould fail lo cruife in ihe founding*, according 10 order, 10 lecure the Hade of her majeliy'* fubjeai, and (hat of her ^tiet. " Sigoea, * Sir John, if conretjoence of hli acquittal, re-boified bii flag eft hMrd the ViQory on the aifl of July. tiiid DiailizodbvGoOglf iBS uvEs AMD /;haractexs op trial of fir John Mundcn, rear-admiral of th<; red % dron, to be laid before her ; aiid having conTidered all circuin():ance5 relating to the expedition againd Corun: faer majelly finding that Tir John Miinden has not done duty, purluant to his j nllrui^ions, does not think fit f:ontinue him in her fervicc, and has therefore declai her pleafure, that his royal highncfs the lord high admi Ihould immediately difcharge him from his poli and co mand in the royal navy, and his royal hjghncts has giv »he neceffary orders for it*." How great niuft have N (he fpirit ot prejudice which could induce fo juft a pr Cefs to exert her prero^tive, in oppofitlon, as it may called) to the legal decifion of her fubjccts. Sir Jo appears to have lived ever afterw^ds in retirement, a 10 have died on the I3lh of March 17 18. MYNGS, Chriftopher, — is fiippofed to have been 1 Ton of the very brave and well known admiral fir Chri Myngs, who fell in the firll Pulch war. He was a pointed lieutenant uf the Pearl in the year 16&4; oft Oxford on the 10th of May 1687 ; pn the 2^h of M 1688, of the Mary ; and, on the ift of June, of t Deptford. Dn the 8th of September he was promot to the command of the iiophia fircOiip, and continued be progreflively appointed to ditferent Ihips. after t ■ In the Annuls of queen Acne we Gnd the following meimiicE •o juni(ytheirc3imemof this unfonuniie min: the world will dcci on tbe propriety of fuch a {hallow defence, of wbal, tbis political 1 vocaic II compelled loconfcfs, an a£l ofinjuflice induced py ncccfTii " On ibe e^ih, (ir John Mundco, who hl^ been' feat oui wir) li]uadraa of tncn of war lo intercept a French fquidron. command hy trnnC. puCaSe, relumed 10 Si. tleleai wiihout having been at {Cither 10 (linder tbc French from gcjimg into the Qioync, or to lii them ihere. The queen boie ihit dif^pppiil'incni To iinp'i[iently,ih JcoinmHIion was afteiwardi feet dovn to inquire into Cr J. Mundei condufi; and ibough he wa< actjuitied bv a court inanial, ytt b majcHy being iuformcdtbit iiwas [cporicd he h>d hten fjvouicd lis captalm, (be thought fit to lay him afide, wherein fhe was applaud by every body. For though (ir John hid behaved himfelf worihil pa ail other ocealiont, and even a£led to ihe bell of hh knovIed;[e ihli, yet lie leqfi ap^arance of mifccvduS defervct cenfure in the b ginning of a new reign ; for a vigorous inQi£ling of Dunirhmenti co iributes no lefs lo ibe eOahlifhment of 1 ihtone, Itiui an equal a £j;DctD>u dilpcnfation of rewud^" rcyoh DolizodbyGoOgle tlAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. itg ffevoltition. In 1693 he commanded the Woolwich of forty-fiK gims, one of the fhJpS put tindfir the orders of fir George Rooke, to convoy the outward-bound Smyrna fltfet. The countenailce fa'id 10 have been fhtwn to fir C. Shovel, by fir C, Myngs, was amply refj^id by the for- rtier admiral to the ion of his paifon ; and, in jufticc to his merit, we muftown, very defervedly fo. Among thtf jiapers of fir Cloudefley is the copy of a letter written by him to the commifiioners of the admiralty, recommending captain Myngs to their notice, " as a verywsrihy dejtrving gentleman." He gives, at the fame time, his opinion, that captain Myngs fhould accept the Woolwich, which the commillioners wanted to re-appoint htm to; and prcflcs them vei^ earneftiy to promote him afterwards to 3 ihip of an higher rate. This letter is iaicA rfie 1 3th of Oflober 1695. The recommendation appears to havo been completely fuccefsful, as we find captain Myngs, ill the following year, commanding the Si. Michael, a feconij rate, and Rationed jn the line as one of the feconds to his patron, firCIoudcfley. We find them, almofl ever after-' wards, companions in the face of danger. At the battle off Malaga, captain Myngs commanded the Namur of ninety-fix guns, as one of admiral Shovel's feconds. He behaved with the greateft gallantry, and received a fcvere_ wound, from which, however, he happily recovered,' Soon after the unfortunate death of his friend, fir Clou- dcilcy, lie retired from the line of aftive fervice ; and, oit fhe 23d of January 1707-8, waS appointed fuperin- tcnJant at Portfmouth, with a falary of 500I. a year. This office has beenfincc fuppreffed.' It differed nothing from that of a port admiral, or naval officer commanding^ the fliips afloat, except that the pcrfon who executed it lived totally on ftiore, a^ the refidcnt commiflioncr of the navy Hill does, and did not hoifl, on board any of the fliips, any flag or diftingtiilhing pendant, as a badge of his com- mand. Captain Myngs held thisoftictftilltheycari7i4, when he retired altogeiher from public life'wilh a penfiOn of 250I. a year. He died on the 23d of O;>obcr 1725. POTTER, Abraham, — was appointed lieutenant of the Dreadnou^t on the 26th of January 1677-8. After i^s lime lie leceived no other comnaillion till the 3d ol- September L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: t9o LIVES AKD CHABAC'rZSS OF September 16881 when he was made lieutenant of the Charles fiTefhip. On the 9th of the fame month he vras promoted to be caplain of the fame vefTel. On the 5lh of April 1690^ he quitted all naval command, and was appointed mafter-attendant at Sheernefs. In this llatioa he died on the 6th of January 1694-5. POULSON.orPOULTON.Edward,— wasappoimed commander of the Speedwell firefliip on the 5th, or, ac- cording 10 other accounts, on the 7th of September 1 688. In the latter end of the year 1692, he was made captaia of the St. Alban's Prize. In the following fummer he was fcnt to Virginia ; on which ftation he was ordered to continue as a proteflion to the coaft from the infults of the fmall French privateers. He died) while employed on this fervice, on the 2ad of December 1695, at Bofton . in New England. ROBINSON, Thomas, — was made commander of the Speedwell {irefhip on the 8th December 1688; an the t5th of February 1 69a- 1 , he was promoted to be cajptain of the Guardland, a fliip he continued to command a . coniiderable time, and -which appears to have been em- ployed, principally, as a cruifer in llic Northern or Ger- man Ocean. He met with confiderable fuccefs while employed in this fervice, having captured feveral valuable and confcfjuential prizes ; in particular a large privateer, pierced for twenty-four guns, called the Fripon. In the month of June 1691, ftill continuing in the Guardland, he was ordered to take the Pear! under his command, anj convoy the ootward-bound Hamburgh fleet; a duty he performed wiih the greatcft care, attention, and fuccefi i and which, mofl probably, caufcd him to be afterwards employed fo frequently, as he ^tas, in the fame line of fervice. Early in tf>e year 1695 he was promoted to the" Aflidance of fony-eight guns*; and, iii the month of May * Hi»di1igpncc wefimi rcwirtledwiihihc following fucce ft, " Whilchill, May 8, i695- Ao accouni hu been received froia capiiin Thomii Robinfan, ci>ininaTi(Ii.-i of tiii mijclly'i ftiip ibc Atliftance, that be irrived on [he 281I1 ^11, in (he river Elbe, wiifa dll iht ILipi under hli convoy; and ihai.Vhoui four or five leaj^ucidlT of He^lizclind, tie fell in wiih «nd look ihnt (lirp^ and the S(. P*ul Artlhip arother, vrbich Aef carried in wifb itictn, all four of tben lidcn wiih wine, briadvi ud oibu mcrchaQduc," L„u„,.™o,Cooglc VAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BKITAIH. t^I May 1696, didinguifbM himfelf in a moti remarkable manner in the defence of an Hamburgh fleet*, at that time under his prote^lioiij In the month of November foflawing he had the good fortune to capture a Ver/ vahiable prize while he was on his pairage to Hamburgh with a cionvoy; He returned from thence towards the end of ths fame month, having conduftett his charge with his ufual care, and having ex- perienced alfo his wonted fuccefs. From the time of hid ouitting the command of the Afliftance, which he did in tne year 1697, in confequence of the ce.Tation of hofti- lities, we hear nothing of him iJU the ytar 1702, whcrt he was made captain of the Dorfetfltire of eighty gima^ In this cnmmand he died, on the 2d of January following. SAUNDERSON, fir Wiilliam, — is fuppofcd to have fleen the grandfon of fir Wiliiatii Saunderfon, knight, one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber to king Charles Ihe SJecond, who died in the year 1676, (n the goth year ef his age. The family of Saunderfon is of very confi- EKtndof iIctttrfTODi NewctOrc, Nov. 1, 1693. '* CapMti Rgbtnbn of ibc A,{SiRaace brou^tii into iiunderlind, cm Irioaiiy LH, a finill Freach privateer belonging 10 Dunkirk." Exinfl of a Ititer from YinnuuA,.Nov. so, 169 j. " Ye&eiitj came iow (hi» loid ihc AITiliancE, commanded bjl <)2- He is faid never to hare ranked as a poft captain after the revolution. His firrt commillion, however, entitles him to a place here, although we have hot been able to learn any farther par- ticulars relative to him, or even to difcovcr the time ot fiis death. SMITH, Thomas, — is another of ihofc \-ery few cha- racters whofc choice of a naval life is, for the honour of the fervice, to be much rcgnetted. He was appointed fecond lieutenant^f the Swififure on the 5ih of April i678;on the i8th of April 1682, he was made lieutenant of ths Falcon ; and ivas re-appointed to tbe fame (lation on board that fliip fome time in the year 1687. On the mh of July 1688, he was promoted to the command of the fame velTel by king James the Second, who removed him, on the 8ih of November following, into the Tygcr Prize, a fliip of fuperior force. In confequencc of his known attachment to king James, he was difmilTed from this coihmand on the 17th of March i688. We fljould ihink otirfelves happy would hiitorica] iruth permit us to clofe our account, here. We have hitherto only feen this gentleman under fln infatuated influence which has exerted our cotnpaflion, ' but L,;u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: bAVAk OTFlcERisi OF tSREAT BRiTAIV' 193 DUt we mull now prepare to bchqld tiim at an cA^ed of Dur contempt juid detellaiion. ^tcr he jhat^ ^ *^ man-. hprjuA reWted; been compell^ to (^uit the lervicc of! his native country, he lliamcfuliy entered iata that of France, and had the command of the Nightii^ale, a fhip bi twenty gu 03 formerly taken from the Engliih, betlbwca bpon jiim. In tnis fhip he was taken, during the year ^7°7> by captain Haddock, in the Ludiow C^le*> and is faid to have afteiwards fuffer^ .the punifhrneot jtiAly. , diie to his demerits. A note ielative to him> ia a lift of the navy, fays be was hanged W an attempt to burn Harwich, This certainly is a mifta)te i his oncncei and bntimely end coafcquent to it^ beii^ what has beeii •bove-ftated; ■ 1 ■ SWAYNE, Thomasj — is known only as hiving beeii appointed lieutenant of the Antelope in the year .fOjii and commander of the I^ngsfidier on the loth of Oc- tober 1688. TOLLMACH, or TALMASH, William.— Was ap- pointed lieutenant of the Woolwich on the 5111 of Oi3o- ber 1688 ; and, on the 15th of December foliowing, was * " On ihc qoili of DccEmber, capEaiii Maddoc):, comEBaader bt Imt niijfefly't Ihib the Ludlow CiRlc, got fi^t olf liie long Tand of two frigitc-llkc (bipi, vrhicii proved to be the NiEhtiDgale and Squir- Kl.rormcrlybcrmajeOy'tniipi.blinheafitJedMitmitn Dunkirk aipK- Viteeri, taA had e^cb uf them ai miny itien ai the Llidlow Callle. Tfacy borh lay by till be nmc within g^in Oiot of ihcm, but thin made Elil from him befbrti the wicid. At eleven it night he came Up with the Nightingale itid took her; tud aifixni is the captain of the Squir. rel perceived it he (hccred o^. Tbf Of Hid of the Nigbiingale wat tone Tbomai Siniili, who bad formerly Commanded ■ Qoop in hei riajefty'j ferviee, andtuit irM Ota tairt-martiaifaT irrtgurar proc' 1*0." Boytr"! Ann. of Q. Anne.— lb ihe latter part of hii infocmi- tion Mr. B'oyer ii Ceriainly miflaken, nbturiitiflanding ha haa litCraJlj' piirfued (be wordi of the Gaiette, No. 4agS. Campbell add> b thii account, — " Captaii^ Haddock carKed fail t>tizc into Hull, fiom whence be thought fit to fend iip capt. SmJthi khd all the Englilh tvho Vfeh: Gin bOaVd the Nightingale, i*hb Wers immdtiately connnitlcd tloft prirouers for high iicafoa, and a profer tuiioa, by the at tor Dey-general, dirked agaiolt tbem.'' Hcilloadd* the folloVflng'Very ju(l remark,—" The making examplei of thefe fori •f menat > dnag of abfoliitc neteSry, in time uf v'u ; and I vcff nueti doabi, wMdier -it ti not a fatfe kind of pity etar to let ihnri ' cfcape." . ■ - . DolizodbyGoOgle prtfmoted^ hf \he lohl DtrtMoutfl, to be dlbfnA df tAe Lsirfc. Soon after the TtTolutTon he waspromMed to the Jcrfey and fent to tlie Weft Indies; where hi died on the ajfhof May jfiot. ■TORRTNGTON, Geor^ Byn§, Lorf Vircouitt— vaa the ddeft fon of John Byng, eftj; of Wretham, in tljt tt>unty of Kent. His femUy was of fbhie anttqnity in that place, being fettled, md havmg lived there ior much r^cfl r» the reign of Htnry the SereiWh. Two of his artteftors wtre repTtrcntativts in paTliainctit •, for ditfer- cilt phces, during At nrign of queen EKzahen, snd part of'thar of her fucceffor James the Firft. ■Waving conteived a Very eitly attachnrtilfto (he tiaval fervice, he procured, in the year 1678, through the intc- rcll: and recommtrttiafidh of James, dtike of York, the king's lettert, wifh rfftrih he went to fca as a volunteer, bCitig thtn fifteen y«rfrs-oM, In 1681 he quitted ^efea- fervice for a fhort time ; and at the inftance of getieral Kific, at that tirrre governor of Tangier, ferved as a cadet '"■"Roft.Byne.ofWrortwnl.IltidircaincenoroFHielortiv^.Tor- of queen EIiiab«tb, anno. iSS&i >nd in ihe s^ih fut 9^''*I '^'8° vu liiecif oF rhc coudiv ol Kent. He married, 10 iili (iilt wife, F^ancci, dau^IiuV md belTcft oT Richard Hill, cfq; bv whom be hti iSfaii three foni, George,, johni anfFrincit, ihe two Isiter oF wtwai died wiiBbut ilTue. .The faid llobcrt tiding ihe ei of Sejxember ^S95< Ij^l'Cco^ebeiore-meRtioned, hiifonaiidbtir, ibcn rhiriy oin« je^an ol4i Thit' Geoif^ y/at di6reii rocmbet of, parLracient for Ro- chcllcr, Tn ihc caoMy S KeiiL, 3;ih of EH^beih, and for ibc port of rfover In'tlie laofTaincuhe Fird. B« iBamciJ Jane, dm^hier of William Cromer, 6F Tunnal)- in Kent, (Ti)] and by her had ilFue thrM foni tni four dausbiers Dying in i6ifi, was ruKci:deii bjr Ccoikc hit eldelt Fan and heir, bom At Wiotbarn lA^i- He married, id 1617, Cdiherine, dau^htce of John Hewct, ol Hcadlc>'-&4, in ttie county of York, iti^. Joho B/nfr, hri Ton and Iieir, con'cy'wa awar the cflatc of WkmUoi, wai the ^11 oF ihii rantily which waiTeitM there. He married ' Fh'iUdclphia, daughter oF Joiintin, of. Lba'ni, ID the county of Surry ; aud hy her had FctciU children, of which (he eldeK wai George Ryn& ihe fiilt lord vifcounc Tocrii^oa, bora ii Wro'iham on the sTth oFJauuaTy '673." Collirs'i Peerage, Vol. VX -+ A-made of cnlcioffi it»o tbt fervice, th6u(^ l«Httly difdiidc then cii«li«|{ tin pciFoii^ wbo pdleStd, it, (as rvJik^ipial to Ait ol the midBiipmrn of the prefeni day. Thit clafi of young o8icetlwct«- origiaally called the lung't leiier-boyt- DolizodbyGoOglt: MAVAL evriC£«8 OIF OBEAT BSITAIN. I9f ki the gremdien beloneing tu that ptn'iton. On a jva- cancf , wftich happened ikion afterwardt, he wai appofntcd hy tbc gmenl, hi^ new pa^on, to be an enJign in hit own company; from which ftation he was fooa after-i warda promoted to ttwt of a lieutenant. In the year 1683-4, it was refolvedtottcmolilh and evacuate Tangier, at we have already had occafion to (tate in the life of lord Daitmouth *. That nobleman having prevailed on hint to return again to the fea-fervic*, appointed him, on tho the 3 }d of February T687-4, to be lieutenant of the Ox- fordi butalthoygfa he, from this time, continued regii' iariy to ferve as a naval officer, he is faid to have r*» taiiied hb mtltMry commilTion for many yearK aftevwards* Oo the ift of June following-be was made iieiitennnt of the i*haenix; of which (hip captain T^n Tyrr«l, undeV whooi he had before ferved in the Oxford, was, at t^M bmt time, app^^ntcd commander. He (ktled in this fhi]} Aien afterwards for the Eafl Itiiies, where he had a-llgiull opportanity, and, at the greoKfl perfonal rifk, CFf firft^ ManJfcHing that courage and gallantry whidh e\'eT rftar« watds mariced his conduA through life. In a defpentc Encounter with a Cinganian piraK, he was onlercd M boatti the enemy, wtio malLing a moll defperate reMancc, tli« grcateft part of bis nKh were kilwd, and himfeH dangerouQy wounded ; but the pirate had prcvtoHfly rb- ctlved fb nrnch damage in the aftion, that he funk almoft at the fame inlhnt. Mr. Byngwas, with much dilHculiy, taken up with fcarce any remains of life. On hii tctum from the £b(1 Indies he was, nn the B4.th of May t688, made lieutenant of the Moidaunt ^ and, on the 3d c^Scp- tember followiiig, of the DeAsaice^ at thkt time com- manded by captain, afterwards lir John Afhby, The tery confpiCMOu* fhaie he bore in thofe political matjeti* vres and intrigues, which preceded and produced (hi -revolution, recommended him Wrongly to the notice of th* ,^ince «f Orange. Inferior H was his r»ik in the fer- .■*ice at that lime, he wb« one of the confidential perfons, moA particularly cfitrufted, to tamper and 'coofer with, tnch commanders as were fuppofed befl affiled to his bi^httdi's caufe. L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ic 196 ilVBS AMD CHAKACTIKI Of He was ringuUrly a£live and diligent in thii emptov' toent, having been (aid to hav; not only Tecurcd tnc countenance and fypport of feveral who were fuppofed to ' be waveringr but alfo to have gained over many wno were held to have been among thcfirmcli adherents of the unfor- tunate James. The uiccefs he had experienced in this negociation pointed him out as the htielt pcrfon to be deputed, by the feveral commanders, to convey their Arm ■UTuiances of refpedt and obedience to the prince of Orange; to whom he was privately introduced, when at Sherborn, by Mr. Rullel, afterwmdi eaii of Orford. Immediately on his return to the fleet he was promoted, by lord Dartmouth, to the command of the Conflant Warwick*, a fourth rates and fent, with the captains Aylmer and Hailing, to carry to th« prince of Orange, then at Windfor, his mellagc of fubmilfion. Soon aiiei the acccilion of king William he was made captain o( the Dover, and employed in the Irilh Tea, as a cruifer, for the purpofe of intercepting any fuccours that might be fent to the late king James (torn France. In the inonth of May 1690, he was promoted to the Hope of leventy guns » which fhip he commanded, at the battle off Bcachy head, as one of the feconds to fir George Rooke; and in that llation behaved . tumfelf with the grcateft bravery. In the following year he was removed into the Royal Oak, alfo a third rate of feventy guns, Hq commanded this Ihip till the end of the. year i6g;2j and, confe« qiiently, was prtfent ^t ihe ever-memorable engagement olF La Hogue, his fhjo bains one of the blue fquadroa then imder fir Jtihn Aiiiby.^-i. J^'thei his gallantry, or hii political principles,' or, iti all prab^biliiyt'^oth united, had before this time fu Itrongly recuiiii mended him to the no- tice and fricndfhipof adinual RullVt, that the mpA indif- foltible and curdiitl attachment apfcAts lo have ever after- wards fiibfifted between them thrgugh life. WJi^i that commander retired froin command, at the end of the yeK 1692, captain Byngdidihc.fame; and does not appear to " In an ofHcial piper we have Trcn, he ii fairf 10 jhtc t^n-mik it » Mjajin %m ihe i^thof Apiil 1687; but of Oii* we h»vc not bcca ■. )c (D pitfCUfc *cy corroboraiiog evickncc- DolizodbyGoOgle IfAVAL OFFICERS OF GRBAT BKrtAIN. 197 'han been employed till the miifortune, which Atended the naVal operations of the yen 1693*, occafioned the recal of his patron, who immediately procured Mr. Bjmg to be appointed i H captain of the Britannia^thc fliipon board which he had hoiflcd his flag as coixmiander-in-chief. He ferved in this llation during the continuance of the fleet in the Mediterranean, where it remained during the years 1694. and 1695. He returned with ittn the autumn of that year ; but did not quit Ai command of the Bri- tannia till the 14th or 15th of January following, when he was, for a fliort time, lucceeded bv captain Ftetcher, who had long been fecond captain of ttK fame fliip. Captain I^ngdoes not appear to have ferved againt till after the aocdfion of queen Anne, when he was ap- . pointed commander of the NalEiu, and fent, under the command of fir Cloudefley Shovel, who was difpaKhed with a fleet, confifling of twenty fail, to intercept th« Spanifh galleons which, convoyed by monC Chateau Renaud, were on their paf&ge to Vigo. This fervice, however, was effciEted by fir Geoi^ Rooke, in the conquell of Vieo itfelf, four days before the urival of fir Cloudefley. The NalTau was one of the fhips left behind with the latter commander toafliftin the re-equipment of the captured fbtps and galleons, and to efcort them afterwards to England. On the nth of March 1702-3, Mr. Byng was pro- moted to be rear-admiral of the red fquadron ; and having hoiDcd his flag on board the Ranelagh of eighty guns, was Tent foon afterwards to the Mediterranean, under the orders of his former commander fir Cloudefley. In the month ofOfiobcr he was difpatched to Algier, with a fqua- dron, confiftinE; of fire (hips, in order to renew the treaty of peace then fubfifling between Britain and that r^ncy. * " 0" the 5lh wf March, fn rhii vmt, he manied, in Carem. girdeo church. Mirpvct, danghier of Jimct Mcfler, of Eafi Lintdrn, ID ibccouniy of Kent, cffii by Joice, hji wire, daushierof fir Chdf- lopbcr Turocr, of Mjlioo £inc|t, ia rhe couniv orScdford, inixbr, one of ih; barons of the Exchequer, and by her ladyfhip, who died on 'April I, I7j6, aged cighty-reveu; and wai buried at Southill ; tad eleven hnt and tow daughTera." Collini'a Peer^e, Vol. VI. i Id 1696 he wat ippoiiitedi comniilEi men, ■ projefi looii uicnnudi laid alide. N3 L;,u,i,.™u,CaOglc ft^B kIVE« AND CtM.KACTKXa OF Thia hifinefi being kapeily cnncluSed the ren-'admiral failed for ICrgland, and, wMn in theChannel,encomiteTed, *~ on the 36th oi November, that difmal hurricane, diltin- gaiAod by the pfc-entiiunt name of the creat {lorin ; this Iw bad the good fortune to leather wirfioa* fultainb^ •n^isaterial damage, and arrived in fafety, nSt.Hclsn'tf on the aikh. The Raochg^ letfo'inM fame confiderable re^aqiiip- ment^ the rtar-Bdniial Aiited his f\ag into the Burlington about the middle of February : bnt as Toon as his fonner .{bip Wis lefitted he again renrncd en board ho, and was appointed to coiBroatKl one of tlic f^adrdn^, in the tnain :mcti Ion to the Mediterranean vmdBr fit Geof^ Rookc. He did not, faowfver, put to fca with that commander, hut &i)ed with the reinfcn:emrnt *hich followed, him* uDdei' fii Cloudeflsy Sherel, in the month, of May. The btilliatit liiccers vhich crrmncd this cipei^tion is W<^ known; and flie rrar-admiral, as he held a vcfy confpicuous (hare in fhe.dxnE;eT, fo, con&quenlly, did he in'tnef;loryaIfo. The attack of GibTaturrhccommafided in chief. At the battle off Malaga, which followed Conn aftcrwanls, his diviTton, harinf; fuflaiiisd the wewht of the a£ti(m, fuficrcd siorc (ban any in the fleet, . ihqt of fir G. Rooke exceptod, which was equally en^ged. Their repeated cfFoitahc bravely lepcUed, notwiihltand- ing fcveraloffais {hips were under the necellityof (juitling the line for want of ftiot, which tfcey had expended in the alTault of Gibraltar. In recompencc for thefc dif- as it were, co- ' vitni the bufacc of the Najiow Seas, ^y his prudefit . «ml jwUcious d'ifpoCiiions, no kfs ^iu^a. tMfcniy ^i^fi^'H^HC of i^oi -of great vakic and confideiahle fotf^itv/eve c^p- ■ luted fr«t9 the enemy *. He held the ttxne c«iii)ui9qd . for th« MMMtMer of tbe Tunmtr, .^uAing which -fae .was eboitn jcpaiftatatuw w parllaowkt for ^a \Dvn.(t£iViv- awHith. Heewtinucriin jth« feijwtKVJpiu^UvjAattop^llt he wu«r«atcdapeeriaa7«iiM wiU'be&entwr^ftCA. '■■■■ ■■■ " !■- !■ ■ 1 ' i if trf f l-g f Wri-gyrtt-T-Ti — mt*— * Hk (bllowing KMUnt of bt^ AiCB«ri> Mit flMiAltiJbf ■MhorHy. " Kr'Omrgc l^I>g, the litter'en^ vf Jihnar^ IkA^'lUleil from n^Wowkwith « (ifiidfimct a^kit, .at^tfem^ketif aieh (Mt- ii>g ihe V"'"')''! priyaweri, whico were tioubltTomf in iKc fouiidingi lifl moiAh oT the Channel; inil by.JnrwMt fl»t!<>mr^^ifc'cn]i{tfi, lib >]f ud^'takcn -from idc eMte)* one Mn «f wBr«f fwtf-faor ^i, M«W« BUatan, and l«*eB of ttie tmimy'f ncrdtikit^ivtl iMlAf .MieMi««fJI>Wy.W«n/ip>li'heWt«Io4ie,., " The number at gum aod tncn .taken in e|ca ^ tke eBGlOje* Qujlt^te u expreOcd in ibe liH under writnn. Man of w^r, Gun'i, Ueat. ' ■ t'l^tit - 44 a^o . PrUatur^ Seflnmia .' g$ 94* ^ VUlipp* • f ■ MO . .ConwHe * s« Mb Voilcur - aS au 1 ' Royal - a6 .so9 &erii)geil *• 14 1 6a SMrrparei] *> 'S3 * ' . Mincm , - it ' g/f , . . .M«veill«n< ■ . ^ H #S I Ponboy - 10 .JO poF|avcnlu>e i lo ' 7* ■' ■ ' J^dmirable - J* Jj- ' Mcicfaant-Oitpi, ' ' Ton*, '■ '• ' ■ Alicant Mercbanl * aoe '^ ^Itpbant • kt gaoi ' . < ■ tr <^luitoa - w *•« ' ' . ( A liiUe Wcfl India (hip ' - 8o . Afliip wlih riiiit - 60 * Anolber Weft India fliip - 300 Caxtte, II4, 4116. N.4 Thfl L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 200 ' I' UVn AKS CKAKAOTBIfl OP ' ' Tiie cNMiAiA oi fir George, while employed in (his fervice, meiited a much greater lh»re of applzufe, thm thofe who are captivated only by repeated and bcilliant n hrtu i'for with a force far inferiortothat of the enemy, he kept the Channel perfc^ly clear of their croifers, and completely confined tbat divifion of their aa.v»l force to the hdFbouF of Bred. -In the month of January 1705-d, ho hoifted his flag on'4>oard ths Royal Anne, and failed, - in the month of March, with a llrong fquadHHi, confifting ■0{ fourte tlier. At fix Bt Dfahi be lande ibe Umil for (lUiBg. We made fail nodcr our cornier. Soon aftcT, fcveral ibip* made tign*1 of danger, aa did »\S6 fir Ctoudeiley bimfelf. The Royal Anne, that wi) not then half a mile to windward of bim, faw feveral breachci, and, Toon after, the rockt above waierg upon oneofwbichfbe faw the Anociatioa Srike, and in left than two minnes diftppen. The Royal Anne was (ai«d bygreat ^rtfenceofnimlbothinoficeraaiidm ' ' lime, fet her (O '"' '' '^ "" "" iMWird ofktr.' L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 0O2 LIVE* AH0 CHAIACTXU «C «f the octa^lion, any nsva( force eapMite ef facing thein. The ftiips crf'war w«« Mtined to efcon a btnd a ten or * twelve tnwrdnd -reteran fbldicxs, with tbo pfctcnder at their head, Theft were an the point of embiriclog, and the whole annada was tncpe£ted ta loll in two or diree ^yi ; when the very unexposed arrivkl of Ur Gaorge totally difconcerted all their ntealurec, after th^ had ^Midy-eKBttedthM h«3ven alone cmUiUfiiplKMitihein, The fiirprifc induced by the appeinnoc of the Britilfa 4tit caufed them t« put a temporary Stop t« ihe caibar^ liation of the troops, and difpatch an exprcfi to Paris for Ifiirther opders t b«t Ldui» the FourtceHin had faiercd t»a tfwnimagihxion tobe fofar heated with Ike li^iea«i&c- mfs, (Km he wai deaf to the prudetit remmftnuwe cv«n «f the count Dc Forbin hiinMlf, and (tat him politive vt&en to put immediately to feet ATMenigateof wind, itm the 2d of March', forcing 111- GirAi^c from kis (Ution, iva?, by fome, ioterpretei iMa aA oOiiaoua intaTpofiBOR of Providence in their ^vour. Tht emfcarfc uto n of die iro<^s was izoiiiplatcd, and tht: ¥)4tole flcM pst tcHfea, from ' tu«rr finw ■wretclMl Be 'MaiitwiiitoiiMfXMiih-OECtMnittlirl. •■ The B^ih ((3(b O- S.) in ihc momiiw, u He- waie MaifUf: ■Dkr the Frith, ve difcovcied a grey nusiKf of Ospt, which wc foon DolizodbyGoOgle RAVAL OFFICEU OF OKEAT BRITAIN. SO^ enemy b the FriA of Edinburgh, but the count Do Foibia mtnoeuvitd fo dextroufly as to eSeik tus efca^.' HefloQJ with mw^ tppveru rcfolution towards tbe Britilti a^inl, who immediately drew his fleet into a line and preJ pared for battle i by wbkb prudent, thoogb, as it afterward* «0peafcd| iKtDccedary iDMnfure, not only mudi time was lolif but an oppominity aflbrdcd to tl^ French of palling between the ifaore and the En^ifh fleet, xod doubting tho oortb point of the bavi by which meant they efcaped. The enemy fTcered fot ianitais, intending to land there ; but being defbtutc (rf' pilots, aad a violect gale ai wind from the N. £. coming on, the count was obliged to giva up oU hopes of landing the troops he was fent to cfcort, «od content htmfelf with rettirm»g in fafety to Dunkirk. - Ha doubt can be eoicrtained by aay pcrfon at all ae* qu»i(ded with fir G. Bjigs character, even fboiild he not have examined the hiltory of the for^ung iranfacUon; Vut that he did eveiy tking a moSt hearty zeal couldfiig. gtft for (he deftru^ion of the enemy's fleet*. He iiai defeated (obn found 10 be ihe enemy'i Tquadron, to ite nombar of twttitf^ cighi fail, whom we judged to be ibe finie that had bf fore appeared oF Duakirl^; whereupon mooficiu' De Foibin, reltiJvcd (u bcir aS^bf (be favour of a [and breeze, which, very lackily. e*rricd ui from ibc Btitmj. The hrici'. pui^aed u« pntly cbp aiwckrd, at four in ihe afternoon, (he Aagaft, Mitti whom (becKcbanged fome |>uni, for fome limc; *f ler wtiilcb the XMlifli boie down upon ibe Salifbury, whkb was more aOern, anil tiKKMOdi^d (• putbef between berfelf «rid anoi^r EncliDi fhip that ma coning op to bcr. The fight bciwset) (bofe two Ihipi, and fomff ethera on both Gdei, laHed till night; durii^ which time iba Salilburr M*de • grrat fire wkh (heir fmall armi." * Of ihii chue and encounter fir Geoi^hiiiirclf|a*e the following Kternit, in ■ Itiler n which *]fo V« mour. Foibin, who commuided ilie f^i^adron. The number anil flrenglh of their flnpi are veiy near ihe accoitnt we btciy rcccivei) from Dunlurkj nor were ihey joined by the Bieft iren of war. They farther ((Ture lu, thai the lhi|i> our oui'tcouii taw vS Ctlait, were pTlviieer* and their piius, going inio Dunkirk. " "Vbe moming aflei thi« chKc wetaw but eighieen of the enemy'* Ihipi, M br u we cotild perceive them from the mad-head, lo lbs £. N-E. of ui. Hiving no profpeft of coming up wiili them wcUjf vS, and on Buccaneft all day ycOerJay, tn gaihcr our Ihlpi together : tad tha day, it hluwine hard U N- E. with a great fca, judgmg iho enemy could not feiie the fiioje to make anv attempt, we Lore up fo* ttai place, wbich we iliouaht nud rcafonable, not only lo fccuic, bui lo give countenance and fpirit to her majenv'i faiihful fubjcS), and 4ifcotH:ige ihnU itui could have tboughu of being our cncmicb" The l;,u,i,;™u,C00^Ic MAVAL OFFICERS OF OREAT BRITAIN. AOJ The people f^ Scotland were more grateful ; the magi- flrat«s of Edinburgh voted him the freedom of that cily in a gold box. This was prcfemcd to him, in London, on the 2iQ of April following, accompanied by a very hanit- . fome complimentary letter, from fir Samuel Macklellen, the lord p(o*o(l. The queen herfelf was To well fatisfied with his condud, that immediately on his return fhe offered to appoint him one of the council toprince Geoim. of Deninarlc, as lord high admiral, an office he politcfy declined. He continued to command the fleet during tha remainder of the year. When Mary-Anne, daughter of the emperor Leopold, the betrothed queen of John the Fifth, king of Portugal, arrived at Spitbcad, Sept. 25, 1708, (Hi her way to that kingdom, her majelly immediately went «D board the Royal Anne, where lir George received her, and condufted her to Lifbon ; at which place he fooD afterwards received a commiinon, promoting him to be admiral of the white. During the year 1709 he com- manded in chief the fleet on the Mediterranean Hation ; and, after his return to England, was, on the 8ih of No- vember in the fame year, appointed a commiHioner of the admiralty. He continued to hold this oHice till the I9tfi of January 1713-14, when, on fome political difagree- ment with the reA of the members compofing the then adminiftration, he was removed'^ but, on tl^ 14th of Oflober following, being foon after the aecellion of king George the Firlt, was reinflated in bis office, which he continued to hold till the lothof 0<^ber 1721 ; andtben quitted, on being created vifcount Torrington. In the year 171 5, he was appointed commander of the fleet httcd out to prevent the introduction of any fuppliea into Scotland for the pretender, who had landed in that kingdom. Sir George had always difplay^d a more thitn common zeal againlt the exiled part of the houfe of Stuart; and, 00 the other hand, as hearty an attachment to thai of hii fuccelTors, and in particular the houfe of Brunfwic; fothat nothing could have been wifer, and better judged than hia appoii}tment. The pretender was fecretly fupplicd by his friends and adherents in France, both with money and ammmiition. But acheck was foon given to this cafual &p- pott, by the diligence and aSivity uf admiral Byng,wtKr nul only cxamiijed aod (lopped evety thip he met with at Tea, 8 but DiailizodbvGoOglc JK6 lives and CRARACTtKS 09 hut alCo had iatercft and addrefs enough to procDrc an order from the Frcnoh court, for the relanding a large ^tunlitv of arms and ammunitir>n at Havre de Gnure^ which he had received intelligence were (hipped there for the above-mentioned iervica. Thefe meafures were, of courfe, fo grateful to the king, that he created fir George i baronet ; and, as a mark of his perfonal aR3chin«br, pRfenied him with a diamond ring of confidcrable value. In the Year 17171 upon information being received ia England that an attack of the fame nature as the preced- ing was meditated, undertheaufpicoSof that well-known wfllers fpjrit, Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden, fir George was frnt, with a very ftrong fquadron, into the Saltic, where its appearance preventedtftat of the Swedes £K»n ever venturing to fea. In the following year he WIS appointed to command the fleet fent to the Mcdittr- lanean, in confequencc of the vcir unufual naval prepa- rations of the court of ^ain. Sif George railed from Sptthoad on tlie i$tb of June 1718, with a force confrft- >flg of twenty Ihips of the line, two fireJhips, two bomb- ketches, an hofpital-lhip, and ft So^e-ftiip. Having ex- ecuted the fcvera! inftmiliona, astothekfsconfeqiiential fervicts he Was to perform during his paflage, he anchbred in the bay of Naples 0n the ill of Aoguft. '■ Hi« arrival was hailed by the jnhabifants dt ttmt iMj with ii\ (^ eKtacyof joy nataral};f attendant on an alTured deliverance from an impending mitfoitune. An attack: Was hourly drekded by them from the fleet of Spain ; «nd, it is but jiiflice to fay, their gratrtade was equal lotlie relitf theirminds-hBdexiKfieaCcd. People t^al! ranks appeared Id vie with each other who fhould pay their deliverers the ^eatett homage qnd refpcfl, «r ccsitribuK moft to ttietr comfort and refrefliment, by fumifhing them with every thine the city dffbrdcd that could tend to both. On tire •dniral's landing he was received under a di (charge of all the cannon round the city ramfKirtt, and ooitdoAed, tiirotwh an infinite throng of people, to the diAc De MalaKwe's palace, which had been previoufly provided for hit reception, during his tefidence in that city. The McelTaTy arrangetnenn and plan beine fettled, and jnutuaHy agreed on, between the viceroy and himfelf, m /ailed frotD Oie hay of N^lca an the 6Th ^f the fame month. _^,i,z™u,Coo^Ic NAVAt OrnCEKS OF CRBAT BKTTAItr. ioj month, having a fleet 6f Tartans under his proteflion, it» which itKTe embarked two thoufand German foot, under the command of general Welzcl, which were intended ti) relicw the citadel of MeflTna, at that time ciofely hefieg^ by the marfliJi£ de Lede, at (he head of a Spanifh army con(?ftii^ of thirty thoufand men. The aditiiral, to the grCateft intrepidity and natural loVe of entcrpfifc, Onitcd a prudence Which fome, though in other refpc^svery ex- alted charaAcrs, appear at times to hai^e ne^ktfled, he- caiifc they haveftrangeiy conceived it wfiuld iiiferfLTc with thatdegrce of feme tney hoped to actjuire. That he might lea^-e no means in his power imattcmpted to prevent the m^cries. of war, which the formidable force under his command enabled him to profccute with the utmolt vigoar and credit to himfclf, immediately af^er his quit- ting Naples, he difptched captain Ssunderfc, his firft captain, to M<;ftina, with a letter to the SpaHilli general, informing Him of his inftruiiions to ufc every hieans in his power to prevent a war, and rccommer.ding a truce for IVfb months in Order to give time to the feyeral power* concerned, to treat and accommodate tfieif differences. The fnarquis civilly declined this moderate propofal, by fjying he was not warranted, by his orders, to confcnt to anyceiration of arms. The admiral, immediately on receJviug this anfwer, having advice that the Spanifh fleet had, the day be.* fore his arrival off Meffiria, quiiled the road of Paradis, which is near the entrance of the harbour; intended to put into Mellina, where he hoped his prefence mi|^ encourige the garrifon to a more vigorous de- fence. When {landing in fur that port, he difcoo vcred two of the Spanifh it:outsi and being ifiUBcdiately afternanls intorKKd, by a felucca, that the Spantni fleei was Then laying To, off the coafl of Caiabna, he altered his original intention ; and difpatching general Wetzel and his troops to Reggio, flood, with all ibc £tH he could make, atier tlie Sp^fh fcoitts, who, as he had apprehended, immediately led him to the itXl he was in aueft of. It COnfiltcd of twcnty-feren ftiJps Of war of SUiea, md'^venl ^reftiips. Commanded by admiral m AntflttitO'de Cailaneta, who had under him four DolizodbyGoOgle 30$ LIVES And charactbks ot . rear-admirals, Chacon, Guavarat^Mari, apd Cammoclc; \Vhen they flrft deTcried the Engl ifh fleet they flood away' large, in a well-formed line. Sir George purfued them, during the remainder of the day, and the tbilowing night; Early the next morning, the iith of Anguft, being pretty well up with the enemy, rear-admiral . Man; wiUi fix SpaniQi fliips of war, and all the gallics, firefhips, ketches, and bther veflels, feparatcd from the body of their Sect and flood in for the Sicilian Ihore. Sir George detached captain Walton with fix fhlps to purTuc them,and followea the main body ; with which his headmoQ fhips, after hav- ing, for fome lime, endured the fire of their antagonills^ commenced an aftion about ten o'clock. This ended in a viflory completely decifivc on the part Of the Englifh,^ thirteen tif the Spanifh fliips, among which were three of their flags, being taken and deflfoyed. It is, hoV- ever, a neceffary piece of juflice to the enemy to iay, they, in general, defended themfelves with much gallantry, againi^ a force coiifiderably fuperior ; yet let not this oc confidered as a circumflanee Jcffening the value of the £ngli(h admiral's conduft, vHio difplayed, through the whole bu fine fs, thcgreateflperfonal fortitude, united witlt the foundeft judgement. The admiral immediately difpatched his fon to England with the tidings of his fuccefs, which were mofl gracioufly received by the king, who had already written him a letter with his own hand ' on the mere report of his vidory, * " MonlieaT le tbevilier Byn^ " Qtidque je n'lyt pu encore refu ie voa nouTclIei en drnlUTrf j'ay ipprli la viSoire que laflotle a remporife fua> vos ordcn, etje n'ly p«i voulu »oui diffitet le contenlemcnt que mon approbation drf voire conduile voui pournnt doaner. Je *uui en remcKie e( je Ibuhiite qD) *out en cemoignici ma (atiifafiion ■ loai let bnvei geoi oDc Ic font diflinguez dani cede ocnGou. he fecretatre d'etat Cragge a ordrc dc vou) infoimcr pliii au long de Tre> intenlioni mai* j'ay vodIq voBt alTurer may aemc ihc <>ine oe-' nCoQ, fiom ihe emperor. — And tbc queen of Denmark aiCo ordered the count Munich, grind maHerof ber aourdiqld, loceu^luluchiai, in kei Dime, qo hi) greal fucccrt, whiCb DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL OFFICXItS OF OEIAT BKITAIH. 209 which preceded by fome days the confinned account of It. His mcfTenger immediately returned with a more fubRantial mark of the royal favour, and the moft amplft powers to negociate, or treat with the feveral ftates, as n* Ihoutd think moft conducive to the fuccefs of that catife in which he was engaged. The Spanifh naval force being DOW no longer in any condition to face the admiral, the only fervice that remained for him to execute was, to keep the Ihattcred remnant blocked up in thofe harbouiS> whither it had flown for refiigc, ana to fupport the land operations of the army, as well by his pretence 2nd pro- tedion, as by facilitating the tranfportation of the fmrcs iind ammunition necelTary to render them fDCcelsful. This, notwithOanding he rode triumphant mafler of the fea, was a ulk of no fmall difiiculty. The Spsnifb army was numerous, well-appointed, and commanded by a gcperal of confidcrable abilities, to whom perfondly, as well as to the caufe in which he fought, the natives of the country were much attached: the Imperialifts, on the other hand, were few in number ; unable on that account to face their enemy in the field, and obliged to confine thcmfelvcs to fuch places of fecurity as they ftiil retEfincd poiTeflionof, butwnich were daily diminifhmg in number by the pretTure of the enemy, ard the want oT theans to defend them longer. In the month of May 1719, the military opcfalions appeared to wear a more propiifilig afpefl. A reinforcement of ten thoufand Infantry, and three thoufand five hundred cavalry, the flower of that army which hal juft before been fo viaoriousin Hungar^^ under prince Eugene, was embarked at Baia in upwards of two hundred t|;aiifports i and the admiral convoying them from ihencc, came to an anchor off Melazzo on the 27th of [he fame month. The army was landed on the following day. Duringthewholecampaign hecontinued^ by every poffible means in his power, to promote the gene- ral fervice andinlereft, not onlyty renaeringall the afCft- ance to be expelled on fuch an occafion from a nava] com- ' mander, but alfo by his prudent advice, which tended lHucIl to avert thofe misfonuncs which, but for this, wotHd har* been brought on, by the too impetuous temper c^ the Im- perial general, count Dc Mercy. We cannot enough ad- nirre-the activity and indefatiganle induftry of the admiral, ^ .Vql. II. O who. L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc lib "LIVkS AKD CHARACTEftS 01* .wtax belidej his natural chancer of a naval comftiandeT' Jn^cnief, at one and the fame time performed, with fuc- £els and credit^ the IcTeral offices of ambaHador, commif'J 3iuy, and gensral purteyor of the ftorcs and neceOariCB ■requilite for the Tupport, and Aiaintenance of a anBieioui mrmjr. . By his fpirited condud the tranqniTlitj of the Mediter-' tanean commerce was prelerved ; which, had it not been tfor thal( would cartainly have experienced much inter- ruption from the avarictotis dirpotitions of Tarious pcr- Sota, and even of petty nates bordering on the coafls, who took ih'is oppcvtanity of fitting out feveral fltips of force intended to cruife in the charaSer of Spanilh priTatcers< Sy a Heady pcrfeverance is aflifling the operations of the land forces, the Imperial troops were enabled to maintain their ground in Sicily, notwithHanding the very great ftreights to which theV were driven for provifions even sifter the rurrende)- of Wfcffina. ' ITie Spanilh court find- ing itfeH* unable to continue the war with any profpefi of fuccefs acoecled to the quadruple alliance in the month of FcWtory 1719-20; and boAilitiei ceafed in the month of May fi^frwing, a courier, with ittftrtidioos for Hut pur- fwle, arrinng from Sfaio tt the very inihutt both the Aimics trcre on the poiiR of cnga^i^. " Thus," as ir is remarked 10 the accoiiot of the expedition to Sicily, ." ended this war, wherein the fleet of Great Britain bore foillullriouf a part, that the fate of die illand vns wholly eovemed by iU <»cTationti both competitors agreeing wat the one could not have conquered, nor the other have been fubducd without it. Never was any fervice condtK^ed in all its parts with greater zeal, aflivity, and judgment ; aor was ever the Britilh flag in fo high repu- tauon and Tt(pe& In thofe diftani parts of Europe." Sicily being evacbatedj fir George repaired to Sardinia, which being put into the hands of the duke of Savoy*, as ntpulated in the quadruple alliance, by the king's fpe- xtal command, he attended his majcfly at Hanover, where * ' * Mil behavioar vu To highly MCCptAIe to liitr prtnee, dM k -prEfenndtiim with hii pi^itrefciwiUidumnnili, 11 tlte Tune tine «>• ,J>reTFHif,fii*'tnfpefl icutonrlMigcBicau lai lix ■omj' fcnricci be bad rondcred lutn. ..T^ , -• ' ' be DiailizodbvGoOglf HiVAt oii'Mciltl Of «»ILAt BftlTAW. Itfc he WIS received with tiw Bi*ft gnckm cspivfilKM 4f ^vouraiuljOnisftAwn. HeuIiud,iDaMS. notewch>«e Fcea relative to his life, to hive been made ttar-adminl of Great Biltain^ aad trcaiiusr t^ the liaVy, .on ibe ifi of Augufl 1720: but in ColUns's Pceiage thefe ^ipoinW b^enta are Taid not to h«ve taken place tiU tbc 3ift«f pftober following. On the 20th (rf' January I720'i,be was fworti member of the privy council ; and tnc 9th of iiqptemlKr I7ZI> was created a peer of Great Britain by the titles of baron of Southill and viicount Tonioglon T. In the year 1734 he reilgned the trMfurer-lhip of ths titvy ill nvour of his fon, Pattee Byng, who werwardt fucceedcd him as lord TohinetOn. In 173$, on the rfr>- vival of the order of the Bath, oe was inllalled one of the Itoight's companions; and continued during the wbt^ of tfiat vrign to poflefs) in the hi^ieft degree^ the fitvoiu and perfonu attachment of his foveictgn. On the acceflion of king George the ^ond, lie rofe BJdicri if pofliUe, ip the rc^al favour; one of the firfta^ •This new foVereign was to appoint him firft lord Cotnmiflioaer of the admiralty ; this took place on the ad of Auguft 1727. He held this office till his death, which happened on th6 i7thof January 1732-^ in the 70th year «f his a^e. He was buried at wnithill in Bedfoidlhire. His chara£leri as an oflkn, we haTe already had fo taiany oceafions to bcftow t encomiums on^ iJut tt «o4ikl he * Tike preamble bf hit pitent, pHnted at lengtt by Collin); cbH^ ^ini iheiDoft hoDOunUe mcntioa of hi* ferricci; and iftird* oi it iHm tame Sme a coocile and jui hiQotj bf hii life. It airo very noblv ^ribatcabiteletaiion to (fae poenge to hti higKAcrin and very gd- bntcoiiduA ui tlte cuife of hit Uiig and country. - 4 Tiherollowingaccouniof himweluvc rdcficd fnma particular . '^Otintof ibecapeditionioSicily, wtiiienby Mr. CofbAl, who lived ia BUicb ioumacy with hitfiniily. ■ '* Tbc late king [George the Firil) vho bid Mved the admtral for .•bM expedition, and karw hit abilitiei, nfed 10 fay to bii miaiflEr*, when they applied to him br inHruflioni, 10 be {cnt to him for hi* Midincc on ceitaio im'portaol occaGoni, that he would feod biia none, Jorhc knawhowtcTaA witbouiany; and, it>de«d, all the aKafum b« -aookabrtnd wcxc lb euU aiiil jufl, ai to Tquare with (be coonaili and ,plaa af poliey at home, TbecaureoFihceniperDibctiig become tEw .taofc of hia maficr, he Temd of that prince with a nal and Mttiif that ftood ■ pautro 10 tiia own futHcSa. He lived in Oa fvch LllulNzcuyCOOgli: 'itl liVes And tuAitAtTEil's of- be • ufcIefsTaintJiogy to fay any thing farthcrin itspraift^if In his civil capacity he appears to luvc fuffered nis at- tachment ftich harmony with th« impctitl Ticeroys and generis, u bu been feldoiD Tmo imong fcllew fiibjcQi united in eommaad ; the want irf which htt proved the ruin of many impoTiani expediiien). He wm 'inrapablc ol pcTfornring hii duly in a sold or negligcDt manner: aad ulipn ai^ fcrvicc in* committed to hii managcmcm, be devoted hi* whole t'niii! and apiflieation (o h : nor cocHtl any fitigoe or iadifpofi- ■ tion oF body ever divert or inteirapt hii alicnttan from any poiol that requiredidilpatcb. To ihii it TBi|;lit be, in ^ai meafare owin^, llai h« WW never laifenuaale in aay undertaking, nor mircvried ifi angr " Hc'alwkys proceeded upon Tolid principlci, )nd tefi nothing to ,'fotiiinc cfaM enuld he arcomptllhcd by furtSghtand applicaiioDp Hit firiDttcli itnd plain dealing were (a ippirent (o the foreigaen who .treated with him upon bultneri, thai it cnniribuicd mncfa to ibe dif- paich and (uccert at their i ran riQIoni with ihem, for they could depend upon what he f'id: and ai they fiw he uCed no am or chicane atm- feir, and had loo dircernlnfi a f^jirll to TaStT ibem to pafi unobferved in' olherl, ihcy often (bund it their bed policy to leave ihcir iDtereflt in hii handi and manigemenl, beini; very (lire of a moft impartial toit ftinflaal performance of whatever he engaged in. " Hit repuiaiion wii To tborouf;hly eflabkfhed in thia patiicidarf 'thai, in the frequent difpdics and altereationi which a rofe between the Savoyard! and Oermani, in the courfe of the war : and between tbe latter and the Spanindi at the'conctulion of )i, wherein little fiiih tfr confidence «!*i givcntoiliepromireioraiTcveration!! of each other, b« uas iha common ampire between (hem, alwayi (lemming and oppof- ini; any eitiavaganl or unjull demand* which ihc overbearing temper of the German general wai very apt to fugeeO, where he had the fufic- rtor band, and reconciling, u much ai pomblc, the violencet of wtf wiih ibe lulei of honour and judice. " When he departed from Italy to attend hii late mijeSy >t }Iano*et, the kmg, among many gracious expreffions, told bhn, that he had found out tile fccrcl of obliging hii enemiei ai wetl b bw friends ; and thai ihe emiii of Spain had meiliioned, with gnat ao- knowlcdgcmcnt, hia bir and friendly behadour in the proviCoa of trtarpnrts and other neccflarie* for ihcEmbirkation of their iroopa, and in prolcfling ihem from many vexationi and cipprrlTiDnj that bad been •ttempied. No wonder ihtt a man endowed with ftich lalenit anil ,fuch a difpofilioo, left behind him. in Italy and other foreign pan*, the charader of a great fuldicr, an able (btcfman, and an boncft maa. ■' To give fomc defcription of hit uerfon— " <■ n . "■ ' ■ '• i- .■ , ■ ^ (piriii, VI 'eriation, ai d fundtoni of life and buGneft, in which he was indefatigable ( .and, by a conftani habit of induflry, had hardened and inured a body, not oaiutaU)' Qroog, to patience of any (aiigus. He had made no DiailizodbvGoOgli: HAVAl'OFMrCISOFtCHtSAT tiVF^Xn. »^_ nchment'to psntcular foims atKT fyftemi offft^nraeMj- to hjve hurried liim into raeafurcs moderate n>f rj would^, perhaps, have heiltated to a^pt; but, in^he midii of hif; cnthuUaiiQ, he appears to hn'e beta difcOgd, oa all oc-r caiions, by what he bmeflV bought xfae good of his caataty, WISEMAN, Robert, — vas appointed zi Ucntcnant ,of the Gioucefler-in the year 1673. Qa I^J WYVILL, Francis, — was dcfcended frcnn one of the vounger branches of the family of Wyvill, of Conftable Suitoo IB the cannly of York ; the main flock of wh^ hath beM| at it b remarked in the EngliCh fiaroitetage, o£ lini^t't tl^rcc, ever lince the Conquell. He was np-^ pointe4 L„u,i,;.du,Goo^It: ((ATAl (^FFICEBS OF GREAT HITAIM. 41} pointed licuSf?iV>nt ,of the Norwich on the aail of March i68i-a; and pf the Woolwich on the I7fh of Apri? ^683. His next cntnpijfliMi was to be fecond lirutcnanl «f the Ann, dated' on the loth of May 1687. From (Tii( (hip he was, on the 41^ of April i6S9,'T«mond into tfiS PoTer, as fecflnd K«utenapt-i and, on the 3d of May foU lowing, was adyano^ to be firft lieutenant of the famJ Hup. 0« the sSfhigf $epteinher he was promoted to tlie command of the Vnity (iic(h|B. J^ In 1.692 he comfpanded the Centorioo, a fenrtK i^ * fltip employed prlnCipalljr iA « crui&r. lo ^k n^lll of July he iignalifedhimfm exceedingly in ail adion wicB fiine French pruate^rs, one' mounting twenty-eight, another eighteen, and the thin} fixtcen guns. ' The two iaft hore away foon after the'a^ion commenced. The targeft was taven after a very fmart defence, which aver/ heavy fea ihen running cnaoled' her to make fiw three kours. Captain Wyvill frequeatly attempted to board his antagonif), and was as onen' prevented by the fwell.* The enemy at lenzth thought f rogir lo fu^l^hdcr, having had fixty meix killed and wounded out of two hundred^ . *f wWch the crew originaHy conJflSd.' $oon after the letum of the Centurion into port^ Mr.'WyvUl Was pro- BMited to the Captain^ a thija rate 61* feventy guns, to block uj) tite ports of Dunkirk and Cal^ t, a Aatioii on which he : f ... ...... -. . ', •.-. .. ^ . ^ * 14e vti rrcomnien4ed H> thii rttitinu)^ yn Deftmbtr tfigj, liy «T abudeflcy STH)vd;■f^t J^enl Kcing 1 ■titwly,it:ptiAi fiiip, to- ^llj dcKtiuK oF hamb, and'capiain Wynll n«l oHjy lenijuiulil^ afUvc in procuring mrn, t>nt viihil (it-mueb beliTvcdi (t>M the cCHnplemciit would be foon compleie. t He haJ fome dil^grcemcn) wiih ■dmHiinniiori' relauve to thi* cammaad, u wi|| appear by liic following k-iier from })llt. fiuicheo, a) itiit time (tijctaiy 10 ihc admir^iy. L„u,i,;.du,Coogli: Il6 LIVES AND CHARACTSKS OP Hd not lonR remain. He continued, however, to contf jntnd the Kent; and, during the icA of the year, wa* always attached to the main ilcet. E(e remained in com- imnion after ihe peace at Ryfwic, but w^ liaye not beei^ able to difcover into lyti't Ihip or fhips he afterwards re- ipoved. Oa the acceflion of queen Anne be was appointed to command the Barfleur of ninety gons. Jn this fliip hq was (lationcd to lead fir Stafford Faiiboine's diyipon : ^d at the attfick on Vigo, which took piace on the return of the fleet from Cadiz, was Ordered to attack one of thq forts which defended the entrance of the harbour. This wa^ a fervicc both dangerous and troublefonie]) inafmuch as, tiotwithfianding he was nblised to endure a very heavy fire from the enemy, which pjerced his ihip through and ' through, he was prevented from returning a fingle gun ; for the confederate troops, which were at the fjme ximti coming up to afTault the fort, were, for a confidcrable ipace, direfllv in his line of fiie. This oblVacIe to his fury being at lafl removed, the attack of the ]and-forces> feconded by the tremendous (ire of the fiarfleur, was almo^ inHanily fucccfsful. Captain Wyvill afterwards contri^ buted his (hare to the capture of the enemy's Ihip^, and veffels which were in the harbour, having made prize of the Dartmouth, a fourth rate, uken from llie Knglilh during the former war. From this time he appears to have totally retired from the fervice. He died, according to Jome ac- " Sir, Admirtlty OStr, 7th April i6{|6. " Ctpoia Wyvill, conunander of ihe Kent, vho wai kFt by yM| to command ihc Ibippi off Calais, havingj by lili jciicr uf iliG 6(li in- lljnt, coniplaiaed to hit grace ihc duke of Shiewlbury, h'n majclliei piincipal ttetettty of Oaic, ihai hte hai noi a fuffiocnt number of ihippxo keep the lhipp« gnd vtlTcJs in which arc at Calaiiand Dan- kirke, iheir UicdOiipiVve comnaiidcd me 10 fend y«u ibe cnrlofed copie of hit letter i ihaiif. upon pei-ufil [bciciof, you (h.maybeepeiformcdl)«tierby fome other peHbn, you may caufc hitn to be relieved. ' " I am, Sir, " your moll humble fervani, " Sir C. Shovell, " Down*." •• J, Burcbett.',' COuntSj L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIW. 217 counts, on the 22d of December 1729 ; but others moll pofitively atTert not till fome time in the year 1731- jn the Gazettes, No. 3120, and No. 3294, mention isiaade of a captain Wyvilf as commanding the Speedwell. Wc cannot find any other gentleman of this name to haye been in the navy ; and this captain Wy vitl certainly comtpanded the Kent at thofc periods. 1689. bEAUMONT, Bafil, — was the fourth fon of fir Henry Beaumont, baronet, and Elizabeth, daughter of George Farmer, efq^ prothonotary of the common picas, and defcended from a very relpcftable family of the Ounc name, which had lone flourimed in the cdunty of War- wick. The family of Beaumont is of a very ancient and noble extradion, being defcended from Lewis, fecund foa of Charles, kinz of Jerufalem and Sicily, younger brother. of Lewis the Ninth, king of France. Its lurname i( -derived from a city of the fame name, on the river Sane, in the province of Maiae. It was firft a vilcounty, and afterwards laifed into a dutchy. Agnes,, the female heir of that honour and feigneurvi marrying Lewis above-mentioned, the fons of the faid marriage took the name of £eaumont. Henry Beaumont, thej fourth fon of'Lewis and Agnes, had leveral hofiourablc grajits in EAgland, and held many eminent ofGces in the Sate. ' He is .generally fuppofed to have come over into England at the inllance of queen Eleanor, wife of Edward theFirftj'lfabell his lifter, wife of the lord De Vefci, of Alnwick, being always (liled kinfwoman to the queen. His defcepdants fuccelUvely enjoyed the hi^ell honours, and molt cpnfequential civil, as well as military appoint- Qients ; many of them having been fummoned to parlia- ment as barons: and John, who lived in the reign of Henry the Sixth, being created -by that unfortunate mo- narch earl of Boulogne and vifcount Beaumont, the firft, L„u,i,;™u,Coo^Ic t|S L^VSS AHPCHAKACTEKS or W it is reourlctd, ever honoured ia England with that rank. He wa« ^fo a knight of (he garter, and loft hif life in the caufc of his royal bencfaflor, being unfortu-. oanly flain at the battle of Nonhampton. The title of vifcount being extin£t in the perfon of William, his fon and fuccelTor, who was attainted for his adherence to the Lancaflrjan ciiife, and afterwards restored by Henry the Seventh, tt \iM not Iince been revived in any of the collateral branches. Thomas, the fecaad fon of John, lord Beaumont, adr miral of the north in the 12th and 13th of Richard th« Second, was the ancedor, in a djred line, of Thomas fieauinont, efq; of Stoughtos Grange, in the county of Leicefter, created a baronet in the year i66fl, the 13th of Charles the Second. Sir Thomas was the grandfather of BazU Beaumont, of whom wp now have to give fooie account. He was appointed llewtenant of the PortfmmMh» by lord Dartmouth, on the 28th of Oftober 1688; on the zrlt of April 1689 he was promoted to ^e command (if the Centurion. In the latter «nd of the year 1692, we Qndtiim captain of the Rupert, at that time cmptoj'ed as 1 cniifer. In this fervice he had confideraWe fureeis, anj of that particular kind which was of the grcatefl utHity to the nation, th£ defti\i£tion and capture of fcveral capita) privateers. In the month of October, in company with Rie Adventure, commanded by captain Dilkes, he cap> fuiwJ two ; one of them carrying twenty-four guns anci one hundred and dghty-five men, and the other eightces Buns and one hundred and twenty men, tt^ethcr with two EngltOi prizes, which they had juft before taken, and two merchant'fhips which were alfo in companjr witH them. In the month of December he ciptured another off* the Start, carrying fiXteen guns and feventy men; and, in a teryfcw days anerwards, a fecond of the fame force; which he had the good fortune to fall in with off* the coall of France. In the year 1693 he ftill hdd the fame command, and ferved in the main fleet ; being firft ftationc4 to lead the centre diviCon of the blue fquadron on the (lar- board, and afterwards dn the larboard tack. In 1694 ha was made commander of the Canterbury, and fentto the Mediterranean under admiial Ruflcl. In DolizodbyGoOgle KAVAt OtriCXS3 OF CKKAT-BXITAW, 3(9 la 1696 he wai removed into the Mont^be of fatf guns, one of the (hips alfo forming the main fleet, la, v/B month of May he wse detached as commodore of a ftout fquadron, coofifling of fcvcral ihip of war, fent to deling fome fliips and vefl^ bid to be layiaff in Camaret and Bertaame bays. The account wat found to be rather exaggerated, four or five veflela only being found there, wUcfa wefe confequentlj deftroyed. Peace takrng place foon after this time * we know nothine of Mr* Beaumont till the ncommcncement of war wim France. Soon after the accefli(m of t^uecn Anne he wae promotedt ts be i«ar>admiral of the Uue. He hfrifled tu< flag oa koaid the Mary, in the Downs, aa the jtft of March ; and was feat, in the month of May, with a fqua^ ilea to Ae northward, having under hit conw^ a icet af ooe hundred and fifty tnerchant-Qiips bound to HoUand; but the chief ettd of his expcditioo, the attack of a French Iquadron, which had jtilt before failed from Dunkirk mder the command of the wdl-known Freittli naval partizan, St. Paul, was mifurf^-rgfiTl, ai Mr. Beaumont returned to the Downi, in the middle of June, without having ever feen the enemy. He cap- tured, however, in the courfe of his cruife, two Frenat privateers who had long infefted the German Ocean.. He cootiaued in the Downs only three days, and then (ailed for Dunkirk with his fquadron, in order to block up that port according to the tifage of the fonner war. tie remamcd on this Itation, diligently and carefnlly per- forming the fervice on which he was fent, till the month of Augiift, when he proceeded to Roncnlam, and from thence to Gottenbntgn, with a numerous convoy. He did hotTCtum from thence till the 19th of Oflober; and retumdl, alai! never more to put to fca. In that tre< mendiMa hsnicatie which took jrface in the mondi of November, his Ihip, the Mary, was driven on rite Good- 6rin Sands,- where it was totally loA; all the perfons * Except ifnl he continued te be cmplovcd duiing ibc whole of (icHlir iliip« be comBundcd. . t Oaibe itth of Match 17OS.3. DiailizodbvGoOglf i2* LIVES AND CMARACTIS* OF who vac then unfonunately on board, periHiing*, one : man only excepted. We cannot clofc this account without obfcrving, that,, although few men have, at fo early an age, attained fa high a rank in the fervice, a circumllance not unlikely to have excited envy and obloquy, i>oiie have ever lived more fenerally refpeSed, or diesl more urivcrfally regretted, n the Englifh Baronetage wc find the particulars given underneath relative to his brothers, which we think our- fclves juftified in infening, as, although they were both naval officers, their premature deaJhs prevented their at- taining that rank which would warrant us in giving a more enlarged account of them t. BEN BOW, John.— Many perfons have taken uncmi- mon pains to rcprefent this very brave and ever-to>be- lainentcd commander as a perfnn of very mean and def- picable origin ; as if) admitting this to be iifa£l, the infe- liority of his birth could render lefs laudable thofe valo- rous deeds which will ever render his name revered, or. • A nionumeoi,- bearing ihe following infcription, hMbeenerrSei) to bif memory', againft ibe Donh wall of the ctuucci of Stoi^bioa •^ This monument Ii erefted to the memory of uimital Buil Bcaamoni, ivtio wu ' lo& in the greit norm lo ihc incxprel&blc ^cf of hit relaiioni, - to whom he gave the highrll proofs of ftiendfbip. He wb< a public lo&, and univerrally lamcnlcd. Never vat found tn any one perfon more viriuci and j^rfeSioni tbao be was bleOed uiih. , He wai the * fifib fon of Gr Uenty Beaumont, bart. Borue in the year 1669 ; loQ Nov. f 7, 1703. Tbit monument wai put up by hii tiler, Anne Beiumom, 1738- '* f He uitdcf went (be mortificalion, feme yean More Vis death, of lo&og two bopefiil brotberi, William Villeri, and Chirlei Beaumont, who, eDCOuiaged by his example, purfued tbe fame foilunc, and wctc educated at Tea. William, a lieutenant, under commodore Meeie, and ditd tU fame hsar wiU) tbe commodore of a Calculure, at the t^ of nineteen, July 17, 1697. Charles, in the revwiieenih year of hj» ag«, was blown up in tbe Downs, Sept. 19, 1700, in the CBrlidc, a fourth rite man of war, but by whii accident ii unknown, not ooe of the Ihip'i coinpaoy on board being faved. * He 'nrat, as wc bdlcvc, the founh. DiailizodbvGoOglf TtAVilL OttlCERS O* GRfeAt BRltA^H. 52t tlimlnifli the infomy of thofe who were the caufe of his miKfomine and untimel;^ end.- Thevery rcvcrfe, howeverj of what has been indufbi- oudy circulated by many, relative to his origin, is th« {a£t. He is faid to have been dcfcended from a family both antient and honourable, which long ilourilhed in the county of S^lop. A Mr. John Benbow, grandfather, as it is fuppofedi of this brave admiral, was deputy clerk of the crown in the reign of king James the Firft ; an office .he held, with the h^heft credit, for, upwards of forty -years. His fans, Inotnas 2nd John, the father of the stdmiral, were perfons of high reputation in the county where their family had long refided ; not lefs refpeSable for its affluence than its antiquity. They were both colonels in the fervice of Charles the Firft, and ever emi- nent and condant in their loyalty to the fovereign, were among the fare moA of thofe who joined Charles the Second, on his inarch to England at the head of the ScottiAi anny. In the well known and unfortunate 'battle of Worcefter they were both of them made pri- ibners. Thomas was diot Ition afterwards; in confequeDce of the very unwarrantable fcmence of a pretended court- martial. John, however, contrived to make his efcape, and lived very privately till after- the reOoration, when he obtained a fmall appointment in the Tower, very in- adequate to his merits and fufierings, and wh^ch was barely fufficicnt to preferve him from abfolute want. Thus fituated, it could not be expected the education of his fon fliould be fo carefully and expenfively Cffli- duAed) as if thofe misfortunes, which we have jufl re> lated, had not ovenaken the family. Campbell appears totally to dilbelieve an aflertion, boldly and peremptorily made by niany, that, on the death of his father, he was Txjund apprentice to a waterman. It is, indeed, of very little confequence, whether it is true or no. If true, this circumltance invidioufly produced as a mark of difgrace, ■ultimately tends to the honour of the perfon who could, from fo mean an origin, raifc himfelf, by thel\rength of his own abilities, unaflifted by fortune as ivcll as friends, to fo high and confequential a Itation. It is however agreed, on all hands, that he went very early in life to fea, and faoo fo far dilliiiguiflied himlclf, by his Ikill ia ' naviga- L„u„,.™o,Coogli: 33i * MVtS And CHAiXCTltJU 0* wmoaiiofi, tad tut rigid steBiion to the intmis *a bif tat^oytnt die oinchaiM, as to acqwic their h^he^ 'Cfteen and nnf •• . • ^ . • . *• i unlfaBiMd dMfidence. A.nrietr of ieno-coKiic tneodoto an lebted of fait onnduA aba m- arepidiijrindefinidiiigdie ftipi becuamandcd^and wUdi ifipear to tan hextt-pnoomMj, if not wbblly, wnjiloye J ia the SiKtslit's fade*, ih the month of Kby 1687 j,hB c o nMMn*! 3o»tftJCTfledtfaeMibt»MB id iMt ) »ndWK^ attadoed, near dw aosA of dw SiftichtE, whoi on h» KlHrii to Eng^awU by ■ SdktiM ciaUcr of confidenhU «Hce. The pirate, lAvAUargii^ Ua bnrfllde,! ac- * Ha i a u a|ii <*« n—lier flt MB. «mh iW mmA W»m lUl M M dw Umh hMaie4 Um i to< ■ wyiit Mytai— trfhit lay. a|M», with >fce lob af ifciiwea«ea. wMslwMbciMinBrnbawacdHMtobiaiiaffudtbrava iMoa tab of Mcfc {ncfck. Wbca be aniMd m Cadii ba went m ttun, uil ordered a negio fenrut 10 Iblbw biai widi Ae Uooti heidt ia « lidu HefaidlcMcelMdEdWbMibei)Ccert«rtbett*CMMiMWfaC «f bMfemntMbuhchyialH^kk? The c^n wrwcKi. AH fMnifioai for Ui own nlc. Tbat bijp be, Hwred Ae oScs^ kit we Bslt inCfl upen tccii^ dien. Capuia Benbow illedge^ 4bi be ynt Boflnogfr tbere; tbeibedidoiita&ioniiigMdii ■iidpreicb4c«l lo nke it *ery Hi ibat be oth fiirpeAcd. Tbe ofiecr* mm hh* ttat ibe migiftiile* weft fining not bi git and Aat K they weM SkAStd with bii word tni ferniu a*^ nnjr aa provHiaat wheft be BicB&d ; bw ihu oibenriCi, ii wm am in (bcir faver to grut iiijr {uch li£- penbtiiHi. '■< ■• Tb« capiiin mafenied to tbe propofal ; tod Iwiy ibef mttchei to tbe caflDRt-bovre, Mr- Beabow in ibe iront, bii man ia ib«' 'cCDtie, and tbe afiaen in ibe rou. Tbe awgiftiatei, -vdicn be.caaK ibebre then, ireaicd optain Beabow wtb smicinbty i told biA ^bey were forry 10 make a point of (ucb-i trifle) but ib*t, finccbeb^rf jcfafcd to Qicw the coDtcnu oF bit lack 10 tbrir officen, ibe uitute of tbeir ettipWlnenti obl^d ibeia to demand iGgbt of ihetni aodtbal,' •1 they dooMednot tbey were fill provifiotti, tlielbewins tbcmcanld iie «F DO great coafequefKc, one ve^ or oibet. " I told voo {ffd ^Kcaplaindcralr) (bey were fait pfYviAooi kraayowo wlei Cc(v,' ibtow ibeni down npoo ihe table: and, geDilemeD, if Tou like thorn,' they ire at your fervice." The Spioiardt were eaccs^Bgly Qmck af. the fight account we bdre*e to-be emxMoni,^ we Ctn find no trace oFbii being employed in tbe public femce ifll the period jufl' mend cined. f Airn ilietnOinceflrnptatfl, aftenrtrdi St John Cac, whoVat tttflerofihcd- Idtt Benbow dcpofed, tAtU tk Sevmign ami wiAm haffgn-^l ^Me. taaiffjir ah ii^. - ■ ' '' mandcd^ L„u,i,;™u,Coogli: tl4 It Vlf AND CR-ARACTEItS Of minded, till die Lmer end of the year 1693*, when we find him appointed captain of the Norwich, a fourth rata, and Tent with a rmall fquadron of frigates and bom^ betches to bombard St. Malnest. The fuccefs he met vithi in confequence of the ability and fpiiit he difpUyed in carrying his mflniflions into execution, appear to have ^inted him out as one of the fitted pcTfons to be entmfl- ed, on all future occafions^ either to commaod in chief fuch dcfultory operations, or to lead fuch detachments, as were to be made, for the fame purpofe, from the more tb>t be mt conuniSoiMd 10 (bibe (bip, ilie Dtine of iTc Ikch unable lo difcoTcr, on ibt igtb of April 169^. t Wc have ibc folluwing iccouai of tbe tatonet in which be cxe- cnud thit Tervice. •' Whitchill, Nov. B6, 1693. *' Bjr Ictten from ciptuo Benbow, ditcd iha igd oF thii raoolb, on board their nujeOy'i Ibip the Norwich, in Guerbrty road, we bi*« an account, ihal on ibe 1 jih, the frinic) and bovb-veOel^ coqi- nuded by captain Philip and bimrclf, failed from Guernley, tbe ' wind at W.S.W. and in the evening anchoieil about iivcleiguti from thence. Tbe 16th, at three in tbe momma, they weighed, the wind M N.N.E. and made ibe bcR of tbeir way for Si. Malo; and, at (bur , in. tbe aftenuwa, anchored before ihcQuiacc Channel. Tbree.ofibe bomb-Oiipi, with the brigaciinet and well-boati, went in and anchored '. -within half a mile of the. town. The.wind bein^ nonheily, which blowi right in, and with a great fwell and Orong tide, ihc frig;ilei were • obliged 10 inooraihwart it, and the. bomb- Oil ps lotlern with the lown, , «hieb look up great pari of ibeir time. About len o'clock they be- gan to (ire, and continued 10 do fo all ihat nij(h{, (III four tbe next morning i- when, to prevent the grounding of their Hiipi, ifac* wert obliged 10 wirpoui. The ijih, at eight in the Trornliig, they Wled in wait) the bumh-fhipi; in doing of which, and bring! og them topaf), ■Mich time wu fpeni. They Ared that day about feveniy bomb*. The 1 8 ih ibey continued their firing, and pieparcd a firc-lhipi putting one bundred barrcU of powder, and two bundled and forty carca&a . on board her. The tgth, in the evening, ibey feni in the faid lire- itiipi aod, having laid her clofe to the tovo-walt, blcwheiup. Pan of the carcaiTei llcw into the town, atid fei it on fire in three or four placo: and fome part of the wall, where the Ibip blew up, wai thrown . down, together with the houfci that were near it. The aoth tbe fliip» weighed and pnt to Tea, after haviag deflroyed a great ouny . toufe* in the town of Si. Malo, and demoliihed the tort 00 the Quince, and taken eijijlity prifoDera out of it and Syeamber. Tbeir KajcQiei Clip the Forlfmoulh, re took a Dutch mcfcbant- Ibip, which ^ne from Surinam, worth bo,oooI. The sid, in the alicTnoon, . our ihipc anehoied ^gain in Gucrnfey raid, where captain ^hiliyt, yiba fell ficlc fome da/i before, died tie Tuiic evening." powerful ..Cookie NAVAL OPflCSRS OP GREAT MVTAIH. }B^ powerful fquadront of (h« lord iBeiJteley Hid Jii Cloa>- Jeflcy Shovel. In the ooDth of Sw^qnibiei 1694, hcwafisppainlcd.jbf - fir Cloudelley Shovel, to cover the stuck propofedtto't^ made on Dunkirk by Mr. Meefters,' wUb fomt vefTda of a particular dcfcription, of hi« own InveiuioD, ^3.atif termed infu-nals. . This fervice, which itu ef a Juu shvays deemed d^fperate, if not impra&ioable, by tOA yal commandets, and reoderefl dill more fo by the ijics-t pacicy of Meetlert, he eatered upon with a z^, and Jiipponedniih a fpiiit, that could not have been exceeded hao hebecn in purfuitof4he sjolt fav«uritc'projeft>of bit own. SooB after the return of the flest into poi^ from this unfucccfsful cxpediiiwii be vas appointed M coimnand the NorthunibcdaDd of feventy e^i% ion bi the Ihipi employed, during the foll«Tring fumma't under lord Berkeley, in the fasoe routine cd fervice *ja that - * EmraS of m letter frcM PonfiMurh, i^ted Apn) B, 1605. " On the iKih p*ft, foiDc of kit aajtHy"* fbip), vaitr the •otD^ ■bind d( cipiiin Bcntww, appcarei] before St. Malo, and gave cittt tiina 10 tht I6wn, from whence the ciicmy Ficd many guni. Uar fbipi chaced in. two.Dfiheii privuccn; uuliUiitliag>i(Mw«rdi-i«4he -^iliward, capiain Bcnbow manned hii bcnii ind went sOio^e oeu C la a w He, frknt he nUt himfelf maRer ef a rmfll fori, nxnimiajg four gun*, which be brought iwa; wiih him." . ' £xiia3 of* letter rrom PoritooHi^ dand Apiil Ae ad. " Cipiiia Benbow, is ibc SaidadMi piuc, li cmm to Spitfaod from ihf French «oill, wher;, cruiliiwwth feme oihet of bifmt^A' ly'l Ihipi, on ihc ijih inflani, ihcy Uw (even fiil of French bft, two of which ibey ^iced albote iicir C«pe L* Hogue, and ileftroyed them : tbe- otbtr £wc Taa aflMte in Greu Ann bay: h*K cipoin Bcnbow fenc in hi* boau, and tOtbongb one of Iben made 1 good n- GOjace, aad ihe couoiiy people cane down in peat nurabcrt to a&8 (hem, hegMthcmallcdFaiidbrot^lIicmawM. Tbclr lading be>i% bit and loWto. At night be took ■ootbcr, bden with wine, frona St. kUo. The l6ih, in die noitUDg, onr frigaici chafed tbrce tail ) one of which ran oo ■ rock and fuslt unmcdiaiclr ; the Other two put iDtoarnalllurboarMar Cape La Ho)|ue, when there ■■ a fort of re* |uai. Wbeo it wai flood, c^taio Bcnbow, Irith two AMr «f hit Diajrfly'i fliipi, tnchotcd wiihin DiaOLct-lhot of the caftlc, and lent iha JerTcf and Miidnooe into the harbour. The town tad French Ihip* loada the bed dircncc thev could ; however thejr were Jooo taken j but it wai near foiJr hoar* oefore tbcy could be got out. They wart' ban of fifteen fail ihii Mne from St. Maioei, and Itrved t t^cttf Vol.. Uj ? w L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: ^a6 U^ti AMD (iHAKACTltl 0* thtt in which we have ilnadf fcen him. Eartv In the Sir 1606 he was Tent, under fir C. Shove), to bombard ilaii. We have alreadr inferted a private account, nvcD tiy (he admiral, of thia tranfadion; from which we leam, that in this fervi<^ captain Benbow had the misfor- tune to be wounded*; we have thought fit to infcrt beneath that which was publifhed at the time by the ■uthority of governoient, in order, that bv comparing the two, we may exoneiate the miniltera of that day from the charge fo heavily thrown upon them, of garbling and tDirreprefcnting every account not Itri^ly anfwenSle to their expedationit. Such was the opimon enteitainetf, ij Icing William, of Mr. iBcnbow's merit, that he was, fooil KRer, promoted to bo rear-admiral of the bhie ; an ad- vancement more honourable, as it arofe folely from his perfonal defctt,unrupported by friends, and what is ufoaily called iolerelt. Many very bi'av» and -able commanders thought themfelvet not difgraced by continuing to ferve Under him as private captains, attW'i beten hts unCnvied fromotion,thi^hadbecninfervicecanfKlerablyhisftniArs. n the month of May, having hoifted his flag on board the Suffolk, he^ras icntwith a Iquadron to block up .the port Tbeic ivo little nterpriiei, ilthoogh itiC7 may in thrmfclvn be deemetl inficnffinat, art, neverthelcfi, &rcmg\j cnanScriftic of tbat~ fpirit aod addrrfi wbicb never Tiilcd to tourit Mr. Benlnw'i candud, wlwtlKr enplojFcd ia tbc deBrafinoB of * ncft of printMn, or » rajral J^nsdraa. t •' DmTa^I 7, f6$<. Sir CloaMey Shovel lUloJ'OQt of il>« Downt the id ioftiM, Willi (evenl nicnof wiriadfourbomb-veffdt, •nd came the DanHeniiat bcfaire Caliii. Cipidn {tenbow wm or- dered in with tbc bonkidictt, ind widi fc*««) fni*)! Mntei ud bri^ laolioei, W fi i mO il i t n ftom ibe enetaf* boiit clid b■l^(dIcr•, wbo made fewc.'M tim ^ t W f n m at oar firtl eoming in, bat were (boa. beaten Eiffand tMti ta mil* into the httboot. Our bomb-v^U bepn to ite ttout n«M, and continued 10 da r« lilt erentng. Tbey threw bctuccB'ifaree and four hundred '&ctb, mod of which fcU inttf (he town tod aoMng ibc ctnbarkaiioiu, Mid ocufioned fires in ihrce or feuf pbcei, aikd in rome of the Tefleli which we believe did confide r. able duHge. About eight m night the boBb-veflcIi, widi the finall friplet, eime off, having loft three w four mea by the fiiol from Am town, lod tcvcaor eight wouaded.** - -of DiailizodbyGoO^IC KAVAL OFFICERS OP GREAT SSlTAIN. 32^ of Dunkirk, where the well-known Du Bart then lay; but, notwithltanding Mr. Bcnfeow's aflivity, this very adroit naval partizan contrived to put to Tea in fpite of him*. The admiral purfued, but without fucccis ; the Dutch fliips that were then with him, according to their ufiial cudom, impeding, inllead of forwarding the com- mon caufe, by pretending they could not accompany him for want of orders. He afterwards convoyed the outward- bound trade to Goitenlnirgh ; and, on his return from this fenicc, failed for Hamburgh, to bring from thence a very valuable fleet of merchant-ftiips, which had been long laying there. While on his paflage he got fight of Du Bart, wlio was at \iH fortunate enough to f f{e£t his efcape by dint of fuperior failing. In the month of October, having hoifled his flag on board the Shrcwftury, he was appointed to a command in the fleet fent out under fir CJoudefley Shovel, to pro- tcft theEnglifh commerce during the winter. About the latter end of December he vras detached, with a fmatl fquadron, to reconnoitre the port of Breft, and gain, if pollible, fome information of the enemy's intended opera- tions. He executed this fervicc with great addrefs, having collected a perfedl account, not only of the number but the Hate of all the Ihipping in that port. About the iniddle of April following he was fent, with a fmall fquadion to the weftivaru. to cnufc at the entrutcs of * Campbell givn Di the bllowina iceouBt of Mr. BesboWi con- dua in iDii buCnelJ, and tbe cauTe of Dm But** gcniag vat «f » In the year 1697, he wu TenE wiikafiMll ^mdrsa before Duo- Itirk, »hcrc he Tived the Virgioi* ud WeK lodjt fleeii from ftlUnf inio ihe hjndi of ibe French privateera. He would likewise Lave fuccccdcd io^nftraiaiaa Du BarE From gmnj out, if the Daicb mr- admirsl, Vandenoet, ud been in * condiuoa to tffifl bin, or tbe tordt of the adminliy beeo inclined to bite taken hii advice ; fcr ob> frrvinfi, in the brginuDg of Asguft, that tbe fraxh Criptu wert hauird iota ihe baton to clean, be j«>dged their defign » be, vfaal it rrally proved, 10 out lofcabj the neat fpringlideittd dMrc(bre.» hli Ibipt were all h>al, be wrote op to tbe board, lodefiie tbrt fbarof the beft ftilen might be ordered to Sbecmeb to cleant and diM tb« oihei* might come to tbe Dawot, not only to take JB water, wUck Ibrr very much wanted, but alfo to heel and Icnib, wbicb be judged ffiight have bsco done, bdvK tbe Utia^ tide give tb« Fieoeb an op- f a poiHUutv L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 22S LIV£s And CHARACTEKJ 07 of the Channel, for the protection of commerce from tbc Fiench privateers and frigates. He continued to be ' employed, during the remainder of the war, in this kind lOf icrvice ; but trom the caution or good fortune of the cnemyj doei not appear to have met with the fucceft due to his exertion^ ana fpirit. Notwithftanding the execution of the treaty of Ryfwic cnnfiderable doubts UWl continued to be entertained of the finceiity of the French, and their continued obfervaiKC uf the peace longer than iheir ncccfiities abfolutely com- pclled It. It was therefore deemed an a£t of ncc^ry precaution to fend a fquadron to the Weft Indies, in order to counteract any ftidden attempt they might make againll our poiiefTions in that quarter. The command i^ this armament was given to Mr. BenlM>w,whohoii\edhi5 flag on board the Gloucefter on the 13th of November 169S* and failed from St. Helens with hii fquadron on the 29ih of the fame month. It confided of three fourth rates, ihe Glouceller, the Falmouth, and the Dunkirk, and a fmall veifel taken from the French in the lad war, cal- led the (jcrmoon. Lediard and Campbell have, through mifiD formation, given him a very long palfage, dating his arrival at Barbadoes on the 2jih of February. In this they are much miUaken, he having anchored in Catlille Bay on the ^ih of January; and, by the 12th, of the fame month, had dillributed the troops he carried out in their leveral places of deltination. Affairs in the Well Indies, at ihe ume of his arrival, wore rather an unpromifing ap- pearance i the colonics were ill provided for defence againfl ' iiu enemy ; ^od we^ & aiCa, by thpr internal difputes, ren> (iertd dill Icfs capable of rdiltance in cafe of attack. The Iquadron fent und^r Mr. Benbow, did not appear capable of aftbrdijig ihem much afliftance, though every thing, portuniqi of getting over tbctbarj but rhii vu oot then thought »d« vllcable, though faeaFleiwatdE received urderi for it, when it wai too Jjie. By ibii unlucky atcidcDl the French bad an «ppOTtunily gives tnem of getiing oai with five cleta fhipi : yei thii, hawevcr, did bob liiwier tlie Kkinnl (rors purfuing them, ai mtU it he wai able : aud U»Bc n( the fhipt «£ bii (((iiadtaD had the gf»od lack to cake a Dunkirk , ^(ivaiccT of tea guiu and fottf dmi), wtaieb had done a gteat deal of itilcBiet." — ■ C mipbell't Aden, of Beitliow. within D,a,l,;t!dbvG00glc ttAVAl OPPICeitS OF GKKAT BRITAIN. 229 within the cntnpafs of his (length, was to be naturally CxpeAcd from his known abilities, znl, and gallantry. The number of the Oiips put under his command on this occafion, as well as thtir ftze, became the fubjcS of much complaint among the merchants in England, as, when joined even by ihofe Ihips which were already on that ftation, Mr. Benbow's force was perfefily inadequate to the taflc of ading merely on the defenfive. Providence, however, and the good genius of Britain interfered ; and the idands continuing^unattacked, confequemly rem>inei( liDConquered. Mr. Benbow havirig made the difpofition of the tnx^s prefctibed by his infmidlions, prepared to carry into execution the remainder of his orders. This expedition is defcribed, in a note given in Campbell, as A be rendered as fhort as polliblc, by {Iriking a great blow in Europe, and another in America, at once. This account of the intention in equipping this fquadronconfiderably pal- liates thegenerallyfuppofed impropriety of its fmall force} and perfuades us that the intentions ot ^e French court, in reality, never doubted, by miniftert'themfelvcs, wcrt Bled but as a mere excufe for fending it out.. TTic fqua- dron accordingly proceeded to Carr gcna, where, by the admiral's fpinted remonftrance / ith tlie governor, he procured the releafe of fome^£ngli(h merchant-ftip* wtiidi had been feized by the Spaniards, a Ihort time bel fore, OB account of a feitlcment made by- the Scotch oii the iflhmus of Darien. He afterwards proceeded, at the inftigatiOTi of the merchants in ^amaipa, on a Qmiiar ctr rand to Pono Bcilo : here he was not equally fuccefsfiil [ 4alisfadion, indeed, was promifed, but that promifc does not appear to' have ever beep fulfilled. 1 nis, at leaft» was fufHcient ground to lament that fo fpirited a cotn^ mandcr fhould be fen* out whh a force incompeteot to enforce the di^ptes df- national judice ; and fcems, in great meafure, to do away Campbell's infutmatiop, that the above Voyage was imeadcd merely to fouod t^ Mn^r of the Spaniards, and procure the bell informaqtai of what w«md probably be thur conduft ia (raft ^ p lupiuif with FrMCC, P 3 Although L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: Zyt LIVES AMD CHARACTERS OP Althou^'thc infiifficiency of Mr. Benbow's fqiudrOft to protect the Spaniards, prevented his acquiring their. <;on6deiice fo completely as to admit him iDto their ports, ^iih the cordial attachment due to an ally and prote3or, and this expedition confcquenc)y failed in its main inten- tion, yet the nation appears to have refted pcrfedly con- vinced, that the gallant admiral had left nothing unKt- tempted, or uoatchieved, that could polTibly be effeScd W «n armament on (a confined a fcale. At home the higheJl pncomiiiins were heftowed, by men of all parties, on his capacity, his courage, and hi* integrity ; and thefe, on his return, derived new ftrength from the authentic leftimo- ntes he produced of the high opinion entertained of his conduct by all the planters, with whom he had neceffarily been connei^ed during his late command, whofe intcrcfts he had ever carefully watched, and whofe property he . always Oiewed himfelf zealous to defend. Thefe general marks of public approbation procured him the moft cordial and honourable reception from the king*, who, on the rear-admiral's return to Europe, in the month of June 1700, fore-feeing a rupture with France not very far diflant, was beginning to prepare for the event, by putting his fleet into condition for immediate fcrvice. Mr. Benbow was promoted to be vice-admiral of the blue } and, having hoiltcd his flag on board the Wincheller, yas feot to cruife off Dunkirk, to block up a Itrong French fijuadxon faid to be fitting in that port for the nurpore of covering a defcent on England. All vppi^- oenlions of danger froai that quaner foon after vaniming^ the thoitghts of government were almoft immediately turned to the Witft Indies, where, though the Englifti had been foiled on a former occafion, it was ftiU hoped fome cunfeauential flruke rr^ight be made, in cafe thi French Ihould endeavour, by force, to carry into execution- their views relative to the Spanilh fuccellioa. Tha fquadron JdiTtintd fttT this fervicc was to conHft of ten ftiips of the lin..-, tvt-b of them third, the remainder Jai^e fourth rates; *■- • •*■ Who (ircoriling 10 Camp'ufll) wat,ai 1 mark of hit royil &- Wiu«i (t'^HHlfly ploM »o grint him in lugmcnntjon of armi, by fddinx ("'■lie uirct bcift-bawi, wbidihe tai bii family ilKidytiore, u many atrowi." - ■ : ; and. _-,i,z<,i:,., Google and, emfidering bntb the confequence' of.the anmmeBt- ilfelf, ts well as the detiexcy, and, indeed, rifr of the feme* on which it was Tent, it was deemed indi^nfiblj' necefo for/ to appoint a man of approved ability and condud to cpnunand it. Miniftera are faid, as with one tccord, to . have. turned their eyes npoa Mr. Benbow. The king- aloae ofaje^bd ta It ; not from any diflike to the admiial, or tbefmalleft dtfappobition of hii former coodud, but nwtely becanfe ha thought it ungenerous to fend a man immediately, as ttwere, ImtcIc agajo toacommaod, which' was at thst-time, from many coiwidinR civcutnftaoces, - particularly unenviable. It was, of cootlTe-, oSered to one probably forefecing the diScuttiei they wottld have to enoouoter in that fciricc, and unwilling to put to an hazard the lofs of that pc^wlar favour tiny had already acquired, thought proper, norvery patriotically we muft GOnfefs, to decline the pn^red apptuntment. King William is faid, by Campoel], to have made the .following bon mot on this occanon, *< ffell then, I juid vet mufijfart amr itaux and fend hatufi Batbmv." On being onavd the command be boneftly and bhuitly re- Jlied, « He koew no difference of climates ; for his part, e ^hoiight no officer had a risht to chufe his ftatitm, and that he himfelf flkculd be, at all time^ ready to go to aoy part of the world hiamajedy thought proper to fend him. ' The bufmefi being thus fettled,. the vice-admiral hoilled his flag on board the Bredab of fcventy guns, and failed from pithead the latter end of Augufl, accompanied by the mam licet, then under the command of fir Q> Rooke. The vice-admiTal parted company, o£F Scilty, on the 2d of September \ but fir John Mund^ wm detached to fee him five or Hx days fail to the weftward of the Azores, by which time, it was hoped, he would be out of all danger of being intercepted by any of the enemy's European fquadrons, . The united (quadioos arrived at St. Mary's on the 28th of September ; and fetting fail from thence on the 5th of Odober, on the Ipth fir John Munden, purfuant to his inftruAions, left liim and returned to England 1 the vlcev ^dqipil purfuihg his voyage arrived at Barbadoes on th« 3d of November \ and finmng, which was nUhet unufind,' P4 «i» DolizodbyGoOgle tpe fctV1»-Al« CHAIACTBIHI Or ^ Laewvd lITMdt in fo good a ftafs of defence » not te Rced any immedtate tSifhnice, be piocteded to Jsmauca, ami anchiKCfl at Port Royal on the ^h of December. ThrdiljKiftiions made by him at tMs critical jun fl wawrK (jach, as entiEBly baffled the piojtfU formed by die French, fm ibe attack of Jamaica and the other Wefl rndui ifiandi. Scon after his arrival, he received imcHigEncc that the French had a Gquadron at Martiiiico, DiHtet monfieur Chzteau Renxud, much liipcsiM to hii : tlixt a jundioa ' wu alfo expcdcft to tales [Hace with nion6enr Coerio^pn, who had juft bcfbic been appointed captain-general of all the Spaoiib fliips in the Weft Indiec, and was then laying , at the iiAvannati with a confiderable force : muivovert that monfieur Dta CaiTe was ban e:(peAed from Eniope with an atUitlonal reinforcement. This accmmlatcrf and tery formidable Aaei nndered nrefy exertion fiecet fary on the- parts, both of the admiral and the colonies themfelves *. A fmait reinforcement of one fourth rate, two &igates, an^ five or fix fmalleTveffeh and traofports arrirctt at Jamaicathe latter end of Jannary ; and a con- fiimatioa Of the intdli^iince already rehitnl Deing receiveit by them, the governor and oonndl fitted out iitmiedi^tely fwo firdlhips, as the heft reiofofceancnt and aflinaiice they could give the fqiiodroD. ia the beginning of May the vice-adroiral himfdf put Irt fea ; hut before he had well clearefl the ifland was jnd rittienloiu calumny, of hit beio^ trnitic Ceaipan. He fiwihu ibct^Ttnchofficcri vcrtexceilvelt cm- b^rralfed by (be vrqi-w^ ctiitdufi cf iJba iip*iii>rdi, wlra vroul'd not tilic'VliiwIeflcpoutof ihcir owq road, though fui iheir owa fetvice^ He refolved id take advantage of thli, ^nd !□ aruck the fmallcJl of tli;ir'fqti)i]rOTii; b^vinf; (K^r; fctit home fuch an account pf ibc inimbcr ind yiUit -of mc Spuiilb Ihipi, taf of the Hrmcfh of the Avricb fipwdnau, Am, wt^ to ertoti it^Ei,'M nughl eoibfe ibe m>< ' tplltyiu tike all pfo^ mearBrei for in'tfi^eptins^iieis.tifilieT in their ^iSa^ fioin ihc Well Indicf, or v/lica it fhou.Td be k|iowa ibey were arrrved In the European fiys." Campbell'i Menl> oT Benbow, — V. B; The above meoiioDcd Ihtpi were ail capttued or dcflro^ed at '- ■' ' time j,Q,i,z.dtvGpogli: HAVAL Of IieiKS OT StW.T HITAIN. 233 t)(Be befopt this evcDt he bwl the finiif>aion oS bearing, t)wt, although tb& jifn^ion had .a&iMUy takes place be- itKcn Coetlogon and Chateau Renaud, who were then faid to be io the gulph of Lcozane with a fleet of tbiit/ fail, yet the laitei coaunaiider nad font to Europe ten of hi« Uiueft (hip*. Even with the Coice which mosuned, ' the gallant Benbow was unable to contend, without leav- ing the moft valuable of the EnriiOt Weft Indian poflef- ftons cxpolcd to a danger which prudence could never have forgiven *. He, however, kept his Oiips in con- ftant rvauneb for immediate fervicc, and perpetually feni - out fmall dctachmeots, on Ihort cmifet, to fcour the coafl:. The inflant he received official information of war being dccUied agunft France, he prepaied to a& (till moie upon tbeaSenfive; and foneof hMdclachmetitsiiietwitli confiderabte fuccefst. On the llth of July the adfiiird ■ himfelf failed from Port Royal with eight (hipi of the line, a fiie-(bip, a bomb-ketch, and a doop. To avoid- ai naucb aa poilible a ulelrb repetition of the fame tranf- a^ion, we have thought it beft t* infcrt beneadi an authentic joamat f of the tranfafUons of the fquadroa * Cunpbelt and Le^rd taj, be IimI lAnCe, ibooi (be niddle of Msf,^ dutoD th»i7ihofi8th«fihef«eto* Bg »owb,feTWWeti Umc flriM b*d pAd b^ C*")Ma Otm, m div nuinm, fteerim (or f&e fqaairan boa>l to >be HanDMb, 10 offer dwir fatviee io coBTOfioc hone Um flou."— Hi* conjcfinte >FP«>n w ban ken ^le&lj well fbnndcd 1 ihii very Ti^OMlrOB bcmg rakn MHf dt&njei la the monili Sib liii Lilt, Vol . f. f. ^t j. Svtk W the eDi) of tbU part of ibe 4 Tb« Fklmoutk, Raby, uid Evpcifaat, wftott A^ .».[■»»„., badfntw entile off P«tii OiMffci, reniniei! wiifa four privet, tbreeof' iben v^iulltn bnnd 19 the HimBinA, ibe founh > ntr rfcft Ibjpr for timet, vnh Emr^nd-tweMy niM mxirrtnl, bat ctpabte of cny' rpnalani ith DPf [^ilf'ldflftiitl BaIMv firftd from before Port' R^alwiAa^rfgn tojoiortW^dn ii rtl WhelftpPei but biThtgadnee oa th* 141b, b* the CoMtcfler imI fendenml, who tbit diy joined bir xCcounts a( the {event north fide of HifptniDli, he plred for tbit port, Nothing of mMnent happcotd dll [be aifi, when be took ■ tmUl Coop kv C«pe Tibe- " On the 17111 ike ulmiral came into ihe CBtph of Iieonoe. Not far fiocD the town be fiw feveni fliipi ii iDcbor, tad oncTundcr ful, who fent her boat to rcconaoiirc; but coming too near fhe vai taken. S' her the tdminl wai iDformed thit there were fivt or fix nerchini. piit Leoganci nod ihtt the fliip which thn helongcd to wui kite's fhipr Md GCuU cirry fift7 nn*, but bow hid b« thirty mounted i whereupon the adminl Durfued her, and prefled her To faiid, ibat ihe captuD feeing DO poflibilky -of cfcapin^ ran the fiiip «{hoif and blew •* On the iStb, in the momhig, the admiral enne before the towa of Lcogaoe, wfaete there ma but one fhip tif ihooi eigbteea gmt, 'tdiitfa wai baaled a Oiora stidcr their lonincaiioni, a battery of 3ioat twelve guai, which could not, however, prcfervc her from bciog burnt. The refl failed from theitce before day, in oidcr to fecure Ihenfelve) in a harbour, which ii called the Cul de Sac ; but (bme of oar Aipi lytog between ihcm and that port, took three of thcM Hid fuok another which had Gatceo gunk " The sgth the admiral cane before Fetit-Guavei, where he found no (hip, but faw three or (bur in ibe Cul, a birbour much within the land, and well fonified both by nature and art, fo that ibe admiral th mgh t it not adrtfcabte to rtta lOfj rifqiie tbere, utriefi the F u B ih - ftipi had been of more valiK. . " Tbe Hfaniral havinj; couMed in tbii bay till the ad of Atiguft, bitod from iheiKc for Cape Qopua Maria, fornUhcd with a good btf . n^ water, where be afiived on tke jib, uid receiving a^kc that nonf. Dii CtSe was ap>c to Carthagen^ mh} f rBA tbe Qi«r<, UDd«f their Kvs Mp-bili. Tharc were of them (our Heat Oiipt, fi^^ Saty^% to Kveoiy )(»"■ one aieai Duicb-twi't flitp qf tbiny to fcnp gun, #itd one fmall Jhip fulTof foMicrt, ibe red were a (loop and thrat ibwli vcOeli. Tbe admiral bad difpufed the line of kutle dt follow*, ttiai . ih« Cefincc, Feadeoan, Waadrar, Btcda^ Grccnwif^ Rntijr.ud Fdlmooih, Being uoca^ 10 fee out (hip* lo long iit caM)(igi>p,Nid' iadiforderioblerviagallothai tbaDcfiaooeaadVUiadrordidliotiMke VyIuflKIO'WIWilUtt ihtat ftuioii,ytwiBjfecviviHkejB«K^>U ; DiailizodbvGoOglf MAVAL OiriCttS OP CttAT BKITAIH. ^5 ftmal'ftdiordinate commanders who were there preleiit»- CODtentiag ouifelves with the plain fimple narrative aa- nexed* Tbe Dt^t approiclung llie admiral iteered iloagfiile of ihe enemy and cndetTOOiea 10 get oear ihcm, being to wiodwant, and fleeiiog Urge bat notwilhadefigntoattack tben befoie ihc Defiance wat abicall of ibe beadnolllbipi bat before thii wai done the Falmoulb io tbe rear aiiacked ibe Flemish )Hip, the WiadEor the Ihip abreafl of ber, ai alb did ibc DeSaixe. Sooip after the admiral waiobliged to do tbc lane, having received the fire of the ficnch Ihip abreafl of bin. TbcD^ fiance and Wiodfor, after tbc^ had received two or tbree breadlidn from tbe enemy, luff'd out of (he tine out of gun-fhoc. Tbe iw flemmofi fltipi of the French lay upon the admiral and v bow and captain Fo«; Defiance, Kictuid Kiikby; Windfor, John ConfUble; Greenwich, Cooper Wadcj Ruby, George Walton; Pendccnii, Thomai Hudfoo; Falmouih, Samuel Vincent. " On the soib, atday-ligbt in (be morning, (be admiral wai near ibe enemy ; but tbe oilier Ihipi (except ihe Ruby alone, which waa up with him) were three, four, and fivemileta-llerni it proved liiile wind. The admiral wat within gun-lhot of ihe enemy, who were (b civil u not to fire. At two (hit afternoon, the fea-breexe coming up, tbc enemy got into a line, making what fail tbey could. The other Ibipj not coming up, theBreda, with ibeKuby, plyed their chafe guna on tbem till nigbt; then they left off, but kept them company all - night. " On the B til, at day-ligfat, ibeadminlbcipgoo tbeqtiirterof the fecond Ihip of the enemy'i fqnadron, and wiuin point-bUnk flioi, tbe Ruby Deiog ahead of him, the French fbip fired at the Ruby, which the Ruby returned. Tbe two French fbipt which were ahead fell off, and there being Utile wind brought their gum to bear 00 the Ruby. The Breda brought her guni to bear on ibe Flench Oup, wbicb fitfi begin, aod fhaUcred her very mnch, oblifjing her 10 tow from u*i but the Ruby wai likewife fo much fliaiiercd in her maOa, laib, and rigging, ibat the admiral wai obliged to lay by her, and fend beat* to toifher off. Thii aQion continued almoA two bouri; dur- ■aa which the rear Ibip of enemy waa ^bieiA of the Defiance and 'Wandlor, who never fired one gun ihoti^ wiihiu poiat-hlank- Ant. At eight o'clock in the morning, a gale of wind Ipiiiirang up, the enemy made what lail tbey could ; and ibe admiral cbated ibea iohopei of coming up with tacn. Being then a bteaS of tbe river Grande, at two in oe afternoon the admind got a-bteaf) of two of [b« HeninHAof ihceHfOii'tlhiptiud, in hepea W dibble ifacn i" their . DiailizodbvGoOglf X36. LITC3 AJfD CHARACTltl OP nned, *» the bell account of the difgraceful condofi of Xome of them, which rc<]uiring do commeDt lo rei der it ntfb md riggiog, Vg*" 10 ''''c od thrai, ai f d hmt of the ftipi ■- fiim; but he laying i-breafl of then iheypoinied wholly Kbiw, wbkb g;illcd hit fhip much id her rigging, and ifTrniounted two or ihrce of the lower-fcek g""'- This held aboui iwp hoars. They j^ot with- Ml gun-lbbt, the admiial irikinB what fail he could ificr them ; but (key nfcd alt ihc fhiftt ihcf poQlbiy could 10 evade fighting. ■ " On ihe «!d, it day-licht, the Greenwich vu about three k*giie) ■'ftetn, though the fignal for the line of battle wat neier (Iruck nigbt ot diy ; the rcfl of rfiE (bipi indifferetitly near (txccpt the Ruby) ; the ctKntyabont a mile and a half i-facid. At ihrre in theafieTnoon illtc wind, which before w» eaflerlv, came to the foothwird. Thii gave [be coefay (he weither-ga?e ; but in tackinf; the admiral fetcbei] vidun gttn-flioraf the llcmmon of them , firing at each other; but oar Itne betnc much ovt of order, md fome of our QiijM three milei »- - fcrft, nothiD? moTc ct>ald he done. This night the eiteiny wai very WWify, altering their c our let very oft(n between (he wcA and north. ' *' On the 134, ai day-Iiahi, the enemy w*s about Qx milei a.bead of D( ; and the great Dutch Ibip fepatated from them, out of fight. Some of oar fqaadron, at ihii time, were more than four mitei a-fieri), tu. ibe Defiance and Wjndfor. At ten o'clock the enemy tacked, the vind tbcn at E, N. E. but mry vaiiable. The admiral fetched within point-blmlt flipt of two of them, firing bro^fidet at each otbcr. Soon uter, he tacked *ad pVTfacd tfaem u well ai he could. AboM (iDon we took from ihem a fmail EtigliDi Ihip, called the Ann -gill^, which they hid taken off Lifbon. The Ruby being difablcd Stt >d< uiiral ordered her for Port Roya), At eight thii nigbt out ffjuxdron vi> about two milei diflani from the enetny, ihey fleering S. E- and very little wMyl, then at M. W. and viri*blc, iha admiral flatiding after them, and all hit ihipa, except the Falmoutb, fallii^ much ■• Cem> At twelve (he enemy began to ftpirare, " On the e4fh, at two in the morning, we ctme vp wilMtl hii) of the Remmofl. It beinpTcry little wind, rheadittiral Jireda hrDadfide with double, and round below, and round and partridge ttoft, which flte returned. Ai three o'clock the admiral'^ right leg wai Ihattercd lopiecri br achain-lbiM, and he wai carried down; but prcfei^lly or- dered hii cradle on the qaarter deck, and cotttinticd the figbt till d^, when spared the ruini of a fhip of about feveniy gum; her aurin- yltd down, ind Ibot to piecet, her fure-iop<(ail'-yard (hot away, bcr wiien-maf) (hot by the board, all her rigging j^onc, aad herfidetbornt ibrongh and throogh with oar doubl^^aded Atut, The FafnouA aKfled Itt thi( matter very mtich, and nd other time 1^ admiral w>i a breail of the enemy, and bal a fair opponuniiy of fighting ibenij (be maltt and ytrdt in a good coudiuon, and few men killed except ihoFeon boaid ibc Bredi. " On tbe 6lh of OSobcr admiral Denbow iffued a commilfian Ift rear-adni] tal Wfaciflooc, and fome captaini, to hold a court'martial foi [be trial of ibe following captains; Captain Kirkby Commander of the Defiance of 64 gUQt. Conftable - - Windfor 60 Wade - - Greenwich 54 - " ■ ■ Hudfon • - Pendenuia 48 who vere iccufed of cowardice, breach of 0rderi,andneg1e£laf dutir, in the figbt that admiral fienhow bad onntained, fur Gx dayi, off the c«aA of Caiihaacna, vitb Du Callt. "The DiailizodbvGoOglf 33B tlVKS AND CHAKACTEKS Or DnCafTe, the French chef d'efcadre, was undoubtedly i very brave man ; as fuchi he felt for the diflrefsand Jlt-ufag* vna of a foe. Soon after the engagement was orer he is reported 10 hare written the vice-admiral a letter, ^ich, according to Campbell, is Hill preferved in ttis furalyt to the following purport. " Sir ! I had little hopes OD Monday laft but to have Tupped in your cabbin, but it pleafed God to order it otherwife ; I am thankfiil ior it. As for thofe cowardly captains who defertcd you, hang them up, for by they deferve it. Yours, Dv Casse." The French fqiiadron, afterthis fortunate cfcape, made the be(l of its way to Carthagena, whcr« having tn feme meafuie repaired its damages, it returned to Europe in the month of March 1703, and at laft teached £rell, after having efcaped many * dangers, and being ** The toun.nUTlial be);inoDihe Stbof ihe fine itionllt, aad bcM loar dip. Capt*ii> Ki'kby mi brou^fat to hii dial ; aai the crime* iftovetttentioncd charged un him, being proved, hy the oarht of the •AiMfj), ten totnniiSioTi office rt, eleven warrant lod inferior officer^ be w*i fentcnecd to be (knt to death; biit the eaccuiion thereof re- l^ited fill her nwjeflv'j pteifurc be toown. " Capiam Conftable wai cleared, by hii nwn officer! and no, of rowndiw-; hot the other ctimei being prared againd him be flood f aOtierrd, by the rentcnce gi*m, from her in»jcfly'i rerrice, with iai- priKinineni durrng bet pleafiire. " Captain Cooper was the next man tried. Tie ■rimet above- mentioned eharsed on hiiti were proved by Gxieen commiflion «id varratH officcn of hii own fci(f, and by fcreral oihen ; whetcupon ' - ' '-■ --; WM Biflinl on Kimai on nptain Kirkby. HndloDt comroaoder of tbe Peodenoii, died fome diyi fcme fenienee w»i jwlfcd on Kim »t on nptain Kirkby. " Captain Hndfon, to " '■ - ■ before ibc ' Then came at) the trial of capiaSn Vincent, cominander of tbe FalmoDtti; and captain FogKi capoin of ibe idmiriri {hijt ibe Breda, for liftiiing a p*per, wiihcaptii'i Kitkby and tbe reft, igiinft enngiu the Ficncn, when there wm fo fair in opporcuntiy and probability ot fuccef). But upon iheiralledpnE, in their own juftificaiion, that they did it only brcanfe they were perfuadcd, conlidering the cowardly be- haviour of [hole caplaini, and fearing that, upoa anoiher engagement^ thofc CBBtiini voiitd wholly defert and leave ihe admiral in the Breda, and [he F-ilmou[h a prey 10 the French ; and upon tbe chirader gisea by thcadmital, indoihert, of iheir great courajte and gallant bchirtoor in tbe baitle, the court thouf^hi fit only to fufpend ifaem from their employment in her majeSy'f fervice, oat wtibal, dwt ihi* furpeniott lb.i!l not commence till hit royal hiafaDefli;i pleifure ii knowo." * " MonOeur Du Caflc, retarnin); from the Well Indiei with bii foui menof war, wu met, March 18, 170B'3, by vice-admiral Gtay- L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: HAVAL OFFICEKS OFCKKAt BEITAIK. 2^9 betng reduced to a inoR mlferablc and Ihattercd conditios' Such was the eftd of the lad remains of the mighty French armdment, which had, at one timp, fpread terror and difmay through all the Britifh Weft Indies ; an arouxnent which, had it been collected together at one time, confiHed of upwards of fifty fiiips of war, thirty of which were of the line. Viewing cooUy, at fo great a diflance of time as the prefent, this very enormous difpa- tity of force, and the lillte benefit d-jrived from it, bjr France, we fcarccly know whether moft to admire, that Klmofl providential coincidence of ill conduS on the j^rt of the enemy, which preferved to England her poueC- Cons in that quarter, or applaud that of the Britifh admiral, who with a force, comparatively fpeaking, contemptible, and rendered, by the delinquency of the inferior commanders, Itill tefs capable of conducing any offenfivc operations, had the ability to counterad thejiro- pofed attempts of the enemy, fo as to tender them totally loeflcdual. To return to the vice-admiral. On his arrival at Jamaica he was obliged to have his broken leg cut off; in consequence of which a fever enfued, this a flrong robuft conflitution enabled him to ftru^Ie with till the 4th of November. On that day he died, regretting, to his latell moments, the national difappoiniment which would neceflariiy attend his ill fuccefs, more than his own mif- fortune ; a misfortune which, heightened by his fufTering^ through a lingering illnefs, rendered him to all, an accu- mulated objea or companion, and fitnk thofe who de- iaM him nill deeper into the pit of national diflike aod deteftation. As to his character, his bitterefl enemy cannot deny ^im the honett reputation of a brave, adive, and able commander; while on the other, his warnielt friends and admirers mult allow, he -wanted thofe conciliatine marniers, which were necefTary, to fecure the perfonal attachment and regard of the officers he commanded. Honcfty, integrity, and blunt linceriiy were the promi- ioa wkb How fliip* of like force, one of which came up witb ani rngifBi hii Ittrnnoflfhip; but Du CifTe, making Lhebellof hi* way, efa^ ckeicctmd tiine."—- Colun. KoEint. p. figs. DiailizodbvGoOglf S40 LIVES AND CHAKACTUS.OF ncnt featuies of hit private chanAcT ; and we cto ttilf Jamcct the depravity of human nature, when we find onrfelves obIigeence. This appears to be con- fitmed by the teftimony of feveral very ancient pcuple ftill living at Deplford, who, although they do not remember ibe lunerat itfelf, have a perfeft recgl1e3ion of hearing it fpoken of as a recent event. According to this inrormz- tion he was buried in the church-yard of the pariQi of St. Nicholas, Deptford, in the north-wefl angle, formed by the projeftion of the fleeple beyond the body of the church. A plain flat ftone was laid over his remains ; but, through the mlferable inattention of his poUerlty, and the difgracc of national gratitude, has been long fince deflroy- cd. The only evidence, at the prcfent day, of tlie plact of his interment, is the tradition jutt given. According to Campbell, the admiral's filler prefentcd, during his life-time, his pi3ure to the corporation of Shrewfbury, who caufed it to be hung up in their town- hall; where, as it Is faid, it ftlll remains. He left be- hind him a numerous poAcrity of b^th fexes. The foot .dying without ilTue, the daughters became coheirefTcs. The elded married Paul Calton, efq. of Milton, Heaf Abingdon, in the county of Berks. Of the younger daughter we have no account. BOKENHAM, William,— was appointed lieutenant of the Kingsfifhcr, by vice-admira! Hcrbtrt, on the loih of Auguft i6Si. On the i7thof Augu(li682, he was re- moved, by the fame commander, into the Briito1> on board which he himfelf carried his flag. On the 2oth of June 1685, he was promoted, by king James the Secontf, to be firfl lieutenant of the Rupert; and, on the'llth of July 1686, of the Dragon, On the Jth of "May 1689^ being very foon after the acceflion of king William, he was appointed commander of the Happy luturn, of fifty 9 gond.' DolizodbyGoOgle ,dyi Tl NAVAL tfpFIClXS or GKEAT BRITAIN. i^t gtins. t^xs fliip was unfortunately captured by tfae enem^ fcon afterwards ; thit captain Bokenham had then quittM the Command of her, being removed into the Sapphire^ oric of the fleet lent to the Strelghts under admiral Killegrew, who, jull before his return to Englaild, in the month of May" 16^0, detached him, with his own (hip and the Richmond, to convoy the merchant- ftips from Cadiz, that were bound to Alicanl and Malaga. On what particular fervice he was employed immediately after this does not appear ^ but we find him, in 1 693, capiaib of the Dutchefs, of ninety guns, and (Rationed in the Ime as' oneofthefeconds to rear-admiral Mitchell. In 1 696 he was made firfl captain of the Britannia; on board which fhip the (fandard was hoilled, Rid by fir George Roolce^ and afterwards by \(ftd Berkeley, as fucceflive commanders- in-chief. After the accellion of queen Anne he was ap- "" ■ " ■ is, th< lolnted captain of the AlTociation of ninety guns, " ' of the fleet fent," in 1702, under the corn- George Rooke, on the expedition againft Cadii. In the attack made on Vigo by the Hect, when on its return home, captain Bokenham was ordered, with this fhip, to attack a oattcry, mounting feventeen guns, which defended the entrance of the harbour. He conduced this ferl'ice with that fpirit and gallantry which appear to have - ever formed the leading traits of his character, bavins completely filcnced the objcfl of his attack, with the Injs of two men only killed. The credit he juflly acquired 6n this occafion, and which might he faid to eclipfe thofe Tn which he had, during the former part of his life, heca happily and fuccefsfully engaged, he did not lone furvive. dying on the jth of November fc^owlng, very ItxHi after he had returned to England. BOYS, Edward, — was, early in the year 1689, made commaniter of the Ktngsfifher ketch. On the 2cf of Oc- tober following he was promoted to the command of the Advice, a fourth rate of forty-eight guns. This velTel appears to have been princip^Iy employed during this, and the following year as a cruifcr; in which fervice it met with confiderable fuccefs. In 1693 he commanded the Cortiwall of eighty guns. He was afterwards appointed captaifi of the Noniucb; on board which Ihip, m confe- ■ Vol. II. Q, qucnce . „,.,,,.,.,Coogli: 242 tlVES AND CHARACTEKS OF quence of fome private dtrcont<:nt, he was ra(h •oough to flioot himfeir, on the 24th, or, as others fay, the iM\ of September 1696. BRIDGES, John, — is Aippofed to be the fame perfon of whom a fhori account has already been given, page 59 ; but as there is fomc doubt of this, we have thought it bed to notice them diftinSiy. This gentleman was appointed commander of the Northumberland, of feventy guns, on the eighieenth of November i68g ; and this being the firll information we have been able to colled) relative to him, induces us rather to believe him to have been indi- vidually the fame John Bridges of whom we have already fpokcn. In 1693 we find him commanding ihc Van- guard, a fecond rate of ninety §uns, Rationed to lead the fleet under ihc command of the joint admirals, Killegrew, Delaval, and Shovel. In this command he died, on the 24lh of May 1694- BUMPSTKAD, John, — was appointed commander of the Saint Paul flrefhip on the 14th of Deccmbv 1689: he was fent foon afterwards to the Wed Indie* with the fqtiadron under the command of commodore Wright, by whom he was promoted to the command of the Jerfey, a fourth rate: in this vcffcl he was, in the following year, captured by the French. The manner, and time of his death are rather doubtful; fome perfons alferting he died while a prifoner in France, during the month of September 1691; others with equal pohtive- ncfs, though apparently with not To much truth, infltling that he returned to England, and was fentenced by a court- martial, held for the purpofc of enquiring into the 7ofs of this fliip, to be Ihoi, for " negleSi, ill-ainduSl, and csmar- Jlce." It isbutjultice to captain Bumpliead's memory, to dedarc we have not been able to find any trace of fuch acourt-martial having been held \ and that we believe the liifl account to be undoubtedly themotl correct, although the authenticity of a variety of other fafls, collected from the fame manufcript in which the latter infermation il given, oblige us to infert it, faving our own veracity, as we of right otighr, by the foregoing obfervaiion. DILiCt.S, Sir Thomas, — was appointed fecond lieute- nant of the Hamplhire on the 2Qth of April 1 687 ; and> w^e 3d of September 16S81 of t^e Henrietta^ On the Stli DiailizodbyGoO^IC NAVAL OFFICERS OF OSSaT BRITAIN. 243 8th of April i^So, he was promoted to the command of the Chanes firefhip; in 1092 he vras captato of the Adventure a fifth rate, jufl rebuilt and employed as a cnjifer on the Irilh flation. In the month of October, bcin? in company with the Rupert, commanded by cap- tain Beaumont, they captured two large French privateers, , one of them carrying twenty-four guns and one hundred and eighty-five men, the other eighteen guns and ont hundred and twenty men. The enemy made a refolutr defence. The lafgeft of them refolutely boarded' the Adventure ; but the fuperior difcipline and condufl of captain Dilkes's people Toon prevailed over the rafh v^our of the alTailants. In December following he had the good fortune to fall in with a very large privateer mounting, thirty-two guns and fix patararoes, Comminioncd by the late Icing James. A defperate aSion cnfued and conti- nued fix hours, when the enemy furrendered, having had their captain and twelve men killed, and twenty wounded. ' In the month of July 1693, he was promoted to th« command of the Relloration of fevcnty guns, one of the fiiips belonging to the main fleet, con lequcntly. nothing memorable relative to him occiirs during the courfc of that year. In the year 1604 he was removed into the Dunkirk ; and, in the month of June, • being in company with the Weymouth, had the good fortune to meet with, and capture off Cape Clear, a very large private fhip of war, belonging to St. Maloes, mounting fifty-fix cuns ; the particulars of which action are given at length in tha life of captain, afterwards fir William Jumper. Captam Dilk«s continued, during the remainder of the - year, on the Irilh Ration ; and by his diligence and at- tention, rendered the molt complete protection to com- merce, far as the harrow limits of his command could poffibly enable him. In 1695 he was captain of the Rupert, and inthefollowingyearofthe Bredahof feventy 7ms. He was one of the captains in the very un- lappy expedition to the Wefl Indies, in 1697, under the, command of that brave but truly unfortunate officer, vice- admiral Neville, It fell, however, to the lot of captain Dilkes to atchievc a fervicc, which was nearly the moft advantageous of any effedled during this unhaj^y expedi- tion, thi> was by capturing fr«m the enemy a very fin* 0.3 flup, L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: (la 244 LIVES AND CHAKACTERS OF flrip, calted the Flying Hart, carrying upwards of forty guns and two hundred and fifty men, having on boani near loo.ooo I. infpecie. Sickncfs occarioning infloitely Aioredcfaftation, both among the officers and men cm- ployed in this fcrvice, than the fword of the enemy, Mr. Neville and Mr. Mecs, the two flag officers, both fell viftims to it, as well as the major part of all the other oSiceis. In conftqucnce of this dreadful mortaliiy the chief command of the fquadron devolved, in the otoAth of Aueiifl 1697, on Mr. Dilkes, who arrived in England with the fquadron in the month of 061. after having undei- fione more difficulties, and diflrefs than ufually falls to the Ihare even of the moft dangerous, and hazardous of all naval cnterprifcs. The peace at Ryfwic being concluded, Mr, Dilket docs not appear to have had any other commifnon granted him during the reign of lung William ; but im- tnediately on the accellion of queen Anne was appointed captain of the Somerfet of eighty gtins, and fent under -jjr G. Rookc in the expedition againlt Cadiz. Mr. Dilkcs was appointed to lead the divifion of the commander-in- chief, who, when the attack on Vigo took place, removed his flag into the Somerfet, that he might be the better en* abled to fiiperintend and fecond the attack. The cir- cumftances attending it have already been given. On the I Ith of March he was promoted to be rear- admiral of the White. In the month of July, having hoifted his flag on board the Kent, he was fent with a fmalt fquadron to deflroy a fleet of merchant- fhips, and their convoy, which were at that time laying in Concalle bay. He ftiled on this expeditioii fromSp:tbead on the 22d, and on the 24th ordered the Nonfuch, ahead of tin fquadron, to procure fome intelligence of the enemy from Alderney. On the 25th the rear-admiral himfeU flood in for the Cafqucts on the fame errand, and at fix o'clock the fame evening anchored olFthe S.W.end of Jcr- fey. From thencche immediately difpatchedcaptaia Cham-, berlain in the Spy brigantine, to procure infonnation and piloiS|from the governor. He immediately fent two very intelligent perfons, extremely well acquainted with that coalt, who gave the rcAr-admiral inicHigence of a Seet of fpity D,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: KAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 24$ Scuty fail, which had been feen on the I5^h, endeavouring to ply to windward, and get into Granville, The rear-admiral inflantly called a council, at which the pilots were both prefent. It was refulvcd to gel under fail immediately, notwithAanding the tide was rather againlt them during the night, and endea- vour to clear the weftermoil of the Minques locks, hoping, if they fhoiild be fortunate enough to effect it, that they might be able to get tip with the enemy by day-light. Tlie event perfedlly proved the wifdom of this refolution, for, on the 26th of July at day-break, the enemy was difco- . vcred at anchor about a league to the wellward of Gran- ville. They. immediately flipped oh the approach of tha Etiglilh fquadron, and ran in for the Ihorc. The rear- idmiral purfued them as far zi the pilot thought it in any degree warrantable to venture- Indeed it would have been the height of impnidence to have ran \n any farther, asat the time the rear-admiral brought up, he iiad only four f^t water more than his flilp drew. The enemy's fleet was now found to confift of forty- five merchant-fliipK under the convoy of three corvettes or fmall frigates •, The rear-admiral fcnt in his own boats manned atid armed, as did alt the other fhips of the fquadron. The enemy was attacked with fo much ipirlt and vigour, that by noon fifteen fail were taken and brought off, fix were burnt, and three funk \ tlie remain- der got away fo far up a bay between Avranche and mount St. Michael, that bottt the pilots were of opinion the thips could not fbnd in near enough to afford any prot^^ion or alliftance to the boats. A fecond council was, howcvert called on the morning of the 27th, in which it was rct folved, that a detachment fhould be formed of the fmallcr Ibips t, to fupport the boats of the fquadron, and that tb^ attempt fliould be made the next morning, 'Diii was accordingly carried into execution between ten and eleven o'clock, the admiral and all the captains of the fquadron going in, td encourage the men. The three . 'he Spy briganlhie, « vcSel (|f fx gust lakcn from the enemy ibe day bci Spy bnnnlme, avcSel ft fore, a;3 (wo Git(U|it. 9,i L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc Jt4'S tlVES AND CHAKACTtltS OF ■corvettes were firft attacked: the largeft, nuunting eigh-- Ktn guns, was burnt by the enemy to pjevcnt her falling into the hands of the Englilh: the fee ond, of fourteen gunS| was fet on fire by Mr. Paul, firft lieutenant of the ^ent, who was Ihot through the lower jaw while effediing it; t^e third, which mounted only eight gups, wa« bfopght oir. Of the merchant- (hips, fevcnteen were burnt or othcr- wife completely dcftroyed, fo that of the whole Beet only fourefcaped, by getting under the guns of Gfanvillc fori, where it was impoflible for boats to attack them. The enemy made feveral attempts to parry this attack, havjng fent (everal large well-armed (hailpps frotjn Grai^ville fof that purpofe ; but the rear-admiral took ihc pre? caution to man a brigantine, anil a fmall veHel of eight guns, which efi«£tually prtHefted the boats from that (jiiarter. This fervice was thoiight fo highly of ty the queen, that Die ordered gold qicdals to be Ilruck 'in order to perpetuate this event, and dillributed them to the ad- miral and the principal officers. The rear-adlniral arrived ai PlymouA, with hi$ prizes, on the 3d of Auguft ; $u'i djd not long contjnuc in port, 'be- ing fent with a fquadron, cpntif^ing of ten fhips of war and a firelhip, to i:onyoy, to a certain latitude, an out- ward-bound fleet of mcrchant-fliips.' Contrary wiii(|> obliged him to'put into Cork on the iSih of' Auguft^ Having failed a mort time afterwards, a'nd'fytfilled the firft, part of his inftruflibnSj he coniinued cruiiirg at the en- trance of the Channel till the beginning of iSe month of Oflober, when he agiiin piit into Cork, and was detain- ed there, by contrary winds, till the middle' o'f November. He failed from thence aboui that time with a very valu- able fleet of Eaft India and Virginia fhlps, which had been obliged, for the fame reafon, to put' into the famq port. He convoyed them fafcly to England, and in lucky time, for he had fcarcely come to an anchor, at Spithead, when that dreadful hurricane came on, which is ufually diftinguinied by the name of the great Jiorm, and which he confequently efcaped the iU-effefts of.' In the beginning of December he came into harbouc to refit. Thisbcingaccomplifhcd, Keagain failed, about ChriftoiaSjto the weliward with a very fmall fquadron^ " ~ confifting L„u,i,;.du,Goo^Ii: HAVAt OrFICXSS OF GKBAT BRITAIN. 247 onnfifting of thrte or four Ihips only. He had the good fortune to capture a very valuable French fhip, hotpe- ward boundfrom Martinico, mounting twenty-four guns, which he carried into Hymouth on the 14th of January. He was immediately afterwards appointed to commamd one of the divifions of the main fleet, which was theu rendezvoufing at Spitbead for the purpofe of convoying Charles, the king of Spain fupportcd by Britain, to Lifbon. He failed accordingly on this (ervice, under the chief command of fir G.Tloofee, on the 13th of Fe- ' binary, having his flag Hill on board the Kent of fcventy gyns. After the arrival of the fleet at Lifbon, the rear- admiral was fent by fir George, according to form, to compliment the king of Portugal, who received him wi^ the highoft refpefi. On the 9th of March 1704> fit G. Rooke failed from I'ifbon, on a cruife, with fuch fhips as were in a cpndition for immediate fcrvice. Havi^ig, on the next day, receiv- ed an account, from a Dutch privateer, that he had the pight before feen threeSpsnifhlhipsof war, and a dogger, ■which he at that time judged to bear fouth from thefleet, sod diflani not more than ten leagues ; fir George, im- mediately on receiving this information, made fail i and it being imagined by (ome perfons on board the headmofl Oiips, that they had fight of the enemy in the evening, the rear-admiral was ordered to continue the chacc tq the fouth-wen, with the Kent and Bedford of feventy guns c«:h, and the Antelope of fifty. During the next day and the following night it blew fo hard that Mr.. Dilkca ■was unable to make fail j but becoming more moderate oi\ the I2th he got light of the enemy's (hips, all which hf took after fotne refinance. They proved to be the I^)rt9 Cfcll, and the Santa Thcrefa, of flxty gun> each ; and the ^f . Nicholas, a merchant frigate of t^venty-fou^. Thef* Ihips were bound from St. Sebaflian's to Cad)'^ : their car- go^ weje not only valuable in thcmfelvcs, but the fofs of them was particularly confequential and diflrelfing to the enemy, as they confif^ed efitircly o( cannon^ bo^bs^ ajid military tlo res: Contrary winds prevented the return of rcar'admlral Dilkes to.i^AKHi tlH the 19th of March : and in going \iiao thff fiver 00c of .bis prizes, the Santa Ther^fa, wa^ ■ <^4 vnfoK* L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: V^ LlvyS AHD.CHARACTSIVS or unfortuoately loft. Sir Geoi^ having, in the interim, returned to Lilbon, the whole fleet having deep joined by all its detachments, failed from tti^ Tagus oii the 27lh of April. Its firft.atchievcrtient was the capture of Gihral- tar, in which fervicc, however, Mr, DUjccs w^s not en- gaged. At the battle pff Malagi, which tppk place foon ajrienvards, he behaved with the utinofl gallantry. Several df Jhe fliips belonging to his fouadron had been engaged io (j}e attack on Gibraltar, wncrc their expenditure of vmiiiuDition caufing a great want of it In the adion al- luded to, they wcr^ obliged, on that account, to quit the line. The eallant bebavisur of the r^ar-adniralin this t^^lidn, rendered qiore perilous by thie circumftancejufl inentianed, procured ^"^ '^^ honour of kn»hthoo(U, on. the 22d qf O> mediately returned to Lilbon, having left fir Thqinas Pilkes, wji^i 9 fmall fquadron, to cruile off the Barlings- Dii the nth of June a conlidera^le reipfc»ceiDcnt ar- rived at Lifbon under the earl of P^rl/onH^ .ajid fiiiC. Shovel, who were appointed joint adotiials. Sir ThKUU having returned into port, a general council of war was called oh the 15th, tn which it was lefoLved to put to fea with the whole fleet, at that time confifiiqg of forty-^ight ihips of the line, Englifli and Dutch, and t9 croifc bc-> tween Cape Spartel.and Cadiz, in oider to prevent, if pollible, the junSibn of tt^ Brdl and Toulon f<]uacli«as. t Apl[tinllyamllptf)f«tuc4b^tMaii^fldypvcn, p. ir*- I Thii L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: JIAVaL OFnCXBt OV CMAT BirrAIH. i^: HAm mSilutiqn «a$ carried into execution on the aiKt; fmi having ciuirpd for fome time, according to the fore- ■ going determi nation, in the beginning of Aiagull it pm- ceedcd £di the Mediierrafiean, at the exprefs Iblicitationof - king Charla, in order to attempt the redufiliori of the' ' jcity of Barcelona. This conqueft being effected, ftr C, Bhovet and the principf^ *art of the fleet returned tD> &^land in the month of O&ober. Campbell and Lc^ dianl both mention fir Thomas as the commander of 4 fmall fquadron in rite month' of O&ober, employed t0 watch the motions of the well-known count de St. Paul, who w^then l^ing in Dunlurk. Lediard mentions this cirpumflance with much doubt) and gives no particulars*. C^pbtU Ipeaks witk rather more confidence; but is {UTtainlyniflKkeneithra' as to the time or tbe tnme of ths-oonunandert &ir Thotpas Dilfces was, undoubAectty, fH the period ^iyen by him, coming home f}'om the M*> ditef ranean with ffr C. Shovpl, ' In ibe year 1 706 fir Thomas continued to ferve in the plain fieet. under fir C. Shove). In the European feat there wa& po op;>ortnnity of e9e£ling any thing ; and, pwing to- a variety of delays, it did not fail for ^AOioaf and the A'lediterranean, where it wag at laft dedined, till the ill of OAober. It was in all-probabi- lity at this time [Oftober 1706) that fir Thomas was employed in the t>lockade of Dunkirk:, 3s we have already fclated, fiar he did not fail with lir Cloudciley, being Wt behind in onjer to convoy to Lifbon a. fleet of merchant- Ihipr and tranfport!, withltores and ammuniticm defined fof the next campaign. He did not fail from Spithcad ' till the3ll} of December, and was-even then obliged to put back. He afterwards attempted to beat down Channel with- a contfflfy wind; but was obliged at laft to put into To^tay, from whence he failed on the 1 5th of January ; ' ?Twl, iPfr^'ing with very bad weather, did not reach Liiboii till the loth of February. The fleet failed from thenco * Campbell inrornii u* ihat the cpuni de St. Paul wm killed diir- Imf ihii cniifc id atMcking (he Baltic Rem aai it) atayoy. The au- thor of the Columna RoDrata on ib« oih«r hand aflcrli, die count de 81, Paul to havE ben flaio in ibe afiion with comtnodoie Wyld an4 die LiQxin convoy in Uie ooniA of May 1707. .. the DiQiiizctiDyGoo^Ii: IjO tlVBS AMD CHAKACTIKS OF thtb^inn'ii^ (^ May. ' The principal, and, indeed, oatf enterprise it undertook, was the attack of Toulcm« which, ai it IS too well known, proved unfubcefsful. When the tony, under the duke o{ Savoy, was about to return to Italy, fir Thomas was appointed to command the detachment of the fleet' which was to cover his march. The previous difpsfitjotu being made on the loth of Au- guft, the (hips oi war warped in as clofe (o the town as poflible; and five bomb-ketches, fumjortcd by a number of light frintes, and the boats of the fleet, ran inm the creek of r on St. Louis ; from whence, nbtwithftand- ing a tremendous fire on the part of the enemy, they con- tinned to bombard the town and harbour from twelve o'clock at noon, on that day, till five the neit morning, and with no inconOderable fuccefs : but the eoemy had by that time brought fo many guns andmortarstoharon the alTailants, that they were coispellcd to retire. Independent of ihe fervice rendered by this Ipiritcd at- tack which fccurd the retreat of the duke of Savoy, the town was confiderably injured, the principal magazine of co.rdage fct on fire, and eight Ihips of the line either de- fifroyed or rendered totally unfit tor fervige*. Sir Qou- deilcy, who returned to England immediately ifter the £ege was raifed, left fir Thomas Dilkes as contmaoder- jn^hief in the Mediterranean with thirteen ftips of war, nine of which were of the line. With this fquadron he failed from Gibraltar on the 5th of OAober, intending to have cfcorted a convoy of troops and provifions from Italy to Catalonia. W^ile 00 his palTagc he received feveral exprefles from king Charles, all rcqiieOing him to repair to Barcelona with his fquadron, he (the king) having mat- ters of much importance to communicate, to hiiri. The admiral, nnable to refift fti powerful ^ foUcitatio^i, conw plied with hti requeA. * Thefe were, The Triumphuw of 94 gum. Vinqncat - 8€ Neptune • 76 Invincible - 70 Serieoa - 6d Laurier - 60 . ,i,z<,i:,., Google ^""pie pt^nts preSed by the king^tliii conference witk- fix Thouui were, thai he {hoiwattempt the cuiKjuelt pf S^rdlaia, and attend prioci pally to the defeoce of the coali of CataloDJia. Thffe bejng quite foreign to the ijiftruc- tioDS the rear-admiral had received, he was under a ne- ic^ity of refufing his complianq;; which he did in lb firopcr, and at the fame time fo forcible a manner, that he Jting >vas neither offended at his F^fufaJ, nor ventured again to repejit his improper request. Th^ admiral failed from Barcelona on the 2d of November, intending to carry his former intention into execution, by repairing imme- d^tely to Itaiy for the troops. Contrary win^s, and con- tinued Hoiujs prevented his rea^liiqg Leghorn till th« 19th; and even after he had anchor^ there he encoun* tered fo dreadful a gale Qf wind, that almoft every Qlip in hi; fquadron fuflaioed foipe damage from it. A r^ew difficuliy DOW prefcnt^ itf^lf, and of a very difagrceal^le and delicate nature. The court of Tufcany had, for fome tinie, t}een in the habit of paying very ex- traordinary honours to ftich r^rcnch flags as entered that port : fir Thomas [)eing informed of this, and piqued at the partial prefcrcfiQc, £;ma|idcd, Of) his arrival, a falute of* fevcntcen guns, which W4S refufed Jiim. t}e then fpiriiedly complained to the queen's mi niftcr at the grand difke's court ; who was anfwered, by the fecretary of (tale, *' Th^t fhe cadle of leghorn never fainted 4ny flag Under the degree of a vjc^adniiral ; and therefore fir T. Dilkes, hqnga rear-admiral only, had no right to cxpcA it. As . to t!ie number of goqs that lir Cloudefluy Shovel was content with was elevep, and returned the fame number." In all public difputes thpre is no argument fo prevalent as precedent or fof mer ufuage; fu that the matter, ttms ex- plained, was immediately adjured. > As a proof of perfanal reJptS In the rear-admiral, he was invited on (hore to a public dinner on the ift of Decern- ber; but this mark ot Italian complaifance coll him his liEi; : a violent ynvr enfiied, of which he unhappily died oil the 1 2th of the famemonth. There are many pcrfons who infift, that the death of this very worthy commander wjis occafioned by poifon, adminidered to him at the en- tertainment above-mentioned, as a ^varning to 4II (uture Epglilh commanders who ihould enter tl^it port, mt to fomflaiu L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc «jl ftfVI* AMD CKABACTIBS Of Mmftnin ef the ntuiuSl tf the Tafcan court. Certain it xi^ faysCanipbdl, the leKmen always looked upon the admiral su a martyr to ttw honour of his coumry. He ww in- tetred with. much fotemnity, on the 14th of 4he fame month, in the bnriat-ground of the British, without the cky, all the ihips of the Iquadron firing minute-guns during the ceremony; He married lady Mary Boyle, relift of Henry Boyle of CalUe Martyr, in the kingdom of Ireland, efq; and third daughter of Murrough Obricn, firft earl of Inchiquin. By berhe left two fona, Michael ObrienDilkes, who died in the year 1774, a lieutenant-general; and Wi Hi am, who afteiwafds became a captain in the navy, of whom here- after. As for the chara3er of this brave and unfortunate man we find much to applaud and nothing to cenfure; he appears to have always maintained the name of a Britilh commander in its genuine luftre. The (lave of no fac- ti«i, he became npt the fubjeft of abufeev'cn to the moll' violent men of party : and if his name pafTcd unregarded, ' or unnoticed, it was not that he was the lefi rerpedabic, but that there was found (he Icfs to blame in htm. The refpcQ of thofc who were his fuperiors in command ho always poireffed : the fervice on which he was ordered, he conOantly did his utmol^to accompUlh . He never obje^ed to any thing confident with his duly; nor was ever known . to wantonly arraign thecondufl oi anoriier, becaufc, per- haps, he might differ from him in opinion. In line, he died lamented by all, and difpraifcd by none. EVERY.Sirjohn,— wasthc2dfonofnrHenryEvery» of Ellington, in the county of Derby, laronct ; and Vere, ' eideitdaughter of fnr Henry Herbert, knight, mailer of the revels to king Charles the Firll. He was appointed fecond lieutenant of the Charles galley on the 6th of July "" 1686 ; and, on the 3d of September 1688, of the Mon- tague. On the 27ih of November following he was pro- moted, by lord Dartmouth, to be firft lieutenant of the Edgar; and, on the i6th of June 1689, to the com- mand of the Kingsfifher, He is fatd to have been afterwards captain of feveral capital Ibips of war, part ticularly of the Neptune, and the Vidiory, under the lord Berkeley ; alfo of the Queen, a firft rate of one ^undr^d guns, After having lerved, during > cotifiderT . „,.,,,.,.,Coog[c NAVAL OFFICEKS OF QKEAT BKITAIK. ^5'} able part of the reign of king WiHiam, with irifiniw credit to himfelf, he retired Irom the ferrice, fuccced- iiig> on the death of his elder brpther, fir Henry Every, wuhout liTue male, to the title and ellatc. He married, Arlt, Martha, daughter of Jdin, lord Haverihath} and, /econdJy, Dorothy, daughter of Godfrey Mcynell, of Bradley, in the county oFDeTby, efq. He died on the ill of July 1729, leaving no iflue by either. GILLAM, Thmnaa, — was appointed lietitenant of the Ruby on the 6th of September 1688. On the 25* of March 1 689, he was promoted to the command of the Greyhound ; and, foon afterwards, to that of the Cbeftcr. This veflel was Rationed by admiral RiilTel, in the year 1692, as one of the look-out frigates ahead of the grand fleet. Captain Gillam had the happinefs of firft getting fight of the French fleet under Tourville ; and thus con- tributing, by' his adivity and good fortune, to the gloriotU vi&oty which enfued. Thcfe were rewarded immedi- ately aficrwardf, by hit promotion to the St. Alban's; in which Ifaip he was fcnt to Newfoundland, with the Bon- adrenture, Mary galley, and Spy firelhip. They took, feveral prizes on that coaft ; and on their return to Eng- land, in the month of Oflober following, encountered 2 viident gale of wind at the entraoce of the Britifh Chan- nel i in which, however, all «f them had the gtfod fortune toefcapeany difa{lcr. Captain Gillam foon afterwards experienced a very ontimely end. In the month of December 1693, he vras fent tocniife oft" the coaft of Ireland ; and coming to an anchor at the entrance of Kinfale harbour, went aOiore there in his pinnace, ac- companied by captain Hailes of the Virgins Prize. 'I'he wind foon after frefhened confiderably, and what was ftill more grievous, blew dire^Iy'in Ihore. Capt. Gillam being exceedingly anxious to return to his (hip, difrcgarded the apparent linger of the attempt; his boat with the utmoft diflicuhy reached the (hip ; but the fea running very high, it was immediately llaved againlt the bow, and both capt. Hailes and himfelf were unfortunately drowned, together with eleven of the boat's crew, two or them only e£iping. The itprm ftill continuing to incrcafe, the ftiip itfelfwas blown from its anchors and driven on a rock, near the point of a place called Sandy Cove, where it was totally L„u,i,;.du,Coo^Ic 454 IIVBS' AND CHAIJtCTlKS Or tooXiy loft ; She crew, one or two only eicepted, fortUr lUKly prefcrving their lives. GO FHER, James,— •was appointed firft lientenanf of the Elizabeth on the 26th of Odobcr 1688 ; on the jd of May 1689, he was promoted to be captain of ttic Ftre- drake bomb ; and foon afterwards of the Woolwich, a founh rate of fifty-four guns. He cominanded this Ihip at the battle off Bcachv Head, where he behaved With much gallantry. After the battle off La Ht^eJ where Ha wasalfo prefent, but in what Oiipwe have been unable to difcover, he was promoted to the Royal Catherine, a fccond rate ; in which Ihip we find him tlationed, during the year 1693, at one of the feconds to rear-admiral Aylmer, and afterwards to rear-admiral Neville. He continued in the fame command till the time of bis death, which happened on the gth of November 1696 } and was always {lattoned in the line as fecond to Tome flag-otBccr ; fottut the compulfive inactivity of the fleet, iit confe- ?|Uence of the extreme caution of the «iemy, prevents us rom adding any thing to what wc have already lelat^. GOOD, Edward. — The firft information we have been able to collefl relative to this gentleman, is, his be- ing appointed com^nder of the Kent, of fe^enty guns, 6a the 6th of June 1689. He moft probably contmued captain of this velFel two or three years ; but, in 1693, he commanded the Boyne of eighty guoi; a Ihip in which he Aintinued during the lemamder of the war. We find ' him commanding a (hip after the peace at Ryfwic, and moil probably was employed dtiring the whole of Ling William's reign, as we find him in commiffion as late as the year 1699. The name of the fliip we have been unable to afcertaiD. We cannot invmigate the particular command he held aJier the acceflion of queen Anne. He certainly, however, commanded a fliip of the line, and was one of the members of the yourt-martial held on hoard ihe Queen, at Spithead, on the 1 3th of July 1 702, for the trial of lir John Munden. Ii) the year 1 703 he retired altogether from the fervice with a penfionof 182I. los. a year, which ha enjoyed till hit death, which happened on tlie i9thof February-1710. GREKNHILL, David, — was appointed commander of the Cadiz Merchant firefhip on the 57 have \)een enip1o]wd ; nor,'indeed, till fome time tft»r the acceffion of queen Anne. In the year 1704. we find him commander of the Yarmouth, one of the fleet lent to the Streights under the command of lir Geo, Rooke, an ex- pedition ever memorable ft^r one of the moft (Iznal an4 ibrtimate events that grace the naval hiflory of Britain. This was the capture of Gibraltar ; in which fervicc cap- tain Hicks boK a very diftinguilhed part. A detachment of (hips were put under his command, on the 22dof Jiily 1704, wiih orders to attack the South Mole Head. The ivind being oif (hore, it was a talk of no fmall difficulty tQ ■work the (liips in, and place them to the beft advantage. This, however, being at laft effeiied, the cannonade com^ menced at day-break on the 23d,' and was continued with fuch fury, that it was computed upwards of fifteen ihou- fand (hot were expended, in about fix hours time, againJl the town and its defences : fo that the enemy were driveo almoft every where from their guns, but more particu- larly from tnofe mounted near the Mole Hcad> the tmm»- diate objefl of captain Hlcks's attack. The confufion of the enemy being apparent, captai^ Whitakcr was ordered to kad, with a large body of fei- men and troops who had been previouHy colle&ed for that purpofe, and embarked in a divJfionT)f boats belonging tp the fleet ; but, ere he could execute th-.fe orders, capiaia Hicks, fullained by captain Jumper, who lay with their fhips nearcft to the fhore •, pufhed forward in their own pinnaces, and a few other boatf, manned and armed, and pofleflcd ihemfelves of the great platform ; from which the enemy was unable to diQodge them, though they fpruiig a mioe, which blew up two lieutenants aiid killed ai^ wounded near an hundred men. Captain WhiMkec tfterwards landing and fupporting them completed their ■fucccfs, TJiis almoft unparalleled" aft of gallantry was ' rewarded by the furrender of a fortrefs, which has fince bid defiance to reiterated attacks of the mofl violent kiod ; to the combined aflautts of fleets and armies, headed by eenerals and commanders of the higheft reputation, aided By every terrific war-like tnventioi), military inEenuity, and the rage of a difappointed enemy could fuggelt. * Driakwiter*! Hiflory of ibe Siege of Cibraliar, pi^ 9. Vol. II. R Thefc L„u,i,;.du,Goo^It: ijS HVeS AND CHAltACTlSS of Thcfe arc ever-verdant laurels which will always en- circle the memories of the bold and fortunate aiTailantSj and which time iifelf will not caufe to wither, or the de- ftruflive Wafts ftf calumny even to fade. That nation which laments its lofs may confole itfclf with the refleflion of having defended it honourably, and attacked it bravely, and conhder that itisaslittle wonderful, the fame Datlonal fpirit which is once able toconcjuer, fhould, in after timeS) llimulate fuccefsfully, to defend. At the battle of Malaga, which took place foon after this event, captain Hicks behaved with his ufual fpirit, noiwithftarding his (hip was one of ihofe leaff capable of fuflaining fnch an encounter, from the enormous expen- diture of ammunition in the late attack, which compelled feveral fliipsoflhe combined fleet, whohad been engaged in it,to quit the line before theconcll]fionoftheaflion,inorder to receive a fupply from fome of the frigates, or fuch (hips as were able to afford it them. After this time we meet with nothing memorable relative to captain Hicks till the year 1707, at which time the chief command of the fcjua- iion, left in the Mediterranean by lir Cloudefley Shovel, devolved upon him, in confequence of the death of fir T. Dilkcsj at Leghorn. He failed from thence immediately for Vado, where, having taken on board a body of troops deltined for Catalonia, he convoyed them thithet, and - then proceeded to Lifbon •. He there refitted his Squa- dron, * Hit conduS on tlitj occaflon gave much offence to Cbirlei tiM Third, who, withoal making ihe,rmallE(l allowincc for ibe condition of ciptiin Hiekl't fquulron, or the oittcra which be wai under from hia own court, ihought proper to break oat into 1 mod vialeot and unfounded cbarsc of criminality againd him, in a Icner 10 fir John Leake. That the reader may draw hisowi) concluGona, we infert i^ following iranQaled eKtra£l from hii tfiBJcIly'] viiy curiout Cptftle. " Captain Hickt, wbo, aficr ihc death of vice-admiral Dilket, had ibe command, ai eldcS of tbc fijuadron, notwithHandine ihc wind w» mod favourable for Sardinia, made the bell of hii wiy for Barcelona, where being arrived, wiih part of ihc liaci aud of the troopa, Uaaiag tit rift tthind, he reiurncd to Lilbon ; whereby he hai Icfr MY PKHbON, ihii principalilv, and ihc army expofed to the grcaieft ck- iremilica and danger! t\\ff ever were threatened wiih, kttvug nar^ard ' te tkt tmHy reprefnteliam and pwtrflatitms ichick taerc madt la hhxfitim ne, and all the ininlHty and ^eneralt which are at my court, to per- fuade him to go to Sardinia, and fiom thence to Italy, lo embark the Imperial Diailiz.dbvGoOglc MAVAl OFFICERS OP GREAT BRITAIN. aj^ drod, which confifted of fourteen (hips of the line, befides frigates and bomb-vefTels, in the bed minner circum- ftances would permit him, and waited for.the arrival of fir John Leake, who was on his paiTage thither from Kngland in order to take the command. Sir John Leake entered the Tagus on the 27th of March j and, on the 2^(1, ordered captain Hicks, who then commanded the Warfpight, to take under his orders the Rupert, Triton, and a £>utch fhip of the line, and convoy the Weft India and Newfoundland trade one hundred leagues. He was inflrufted to proceed afterwards for the iflaiid of Terceras, where he was to join four Portuguefc fiiipS "which were Rationed there to watt for the Brazil .fleet* He was to attend them to Lifhon, and from thence was to teturn to England with fuch mcTchant-fhips as fhould be read^ to accompany him. After this time the name of captain Hicks does not occur as having held any command. H< is faid to have been kilted in the year 1714. ; but the particular circumftances relative to his de^ih we have not been able to difcover. > This brave and worthy man appears to have been one of thofe characters who pafs through life, as it were, in filence, without attra^ing the attention or notice of their contemporaries, and whofc bed fer vices are treated with a cold negledt, indiflcrence, and ingratitude. The page of hiftory, and the annals or records of that fervice with which he was conne^ed, are equally filent relative to him. In point of rank he was fenior to fomc who attained, even during his life, elevated commands, in which they acquired, perhaps, lefs honour than he himfelf Imperial *nd Pilitinc horfc, which are at the fea-Iide for that piirpbb. 1 Ihall not enlarge upon fcvenl circiimnances which Aew but loo evidently the Irregular condufi oF thii captain amnujidaitt i nor npoa (he unhappy conlcquence* which are to be apprehended to the veijr great prejudice and diCadvantaflc of the common caufc, &'c." It appeal* a) if the feirt of hii Catholic majcQy To tolaUy oceapied ' b!i mind, that every eiicunjAaace which diii not in fome degree tend to alia]' tbem, created fomc new parbxjrrni. hli, however, needlcri to fay more, ia juOiBcaiion of captain Hicki, than that hii fquadron wu totally out of condition for fervice, and that necelEiy eompclled tbai coadufi, Erent vbith no piudcnt 01 honofi comntandu would havs *"" ' • R a m J,r,l,z<,i:,.,G00glf- afio * IIVES AKD rHAKACTERS Or did in hii private (tation. Without friends, without iiite- reft, without envious acibitiOi, he frequently fctved, • without inurmuring, utvder admirals whom* had tfaCj continued in the rank of private captains, he muft, ac- cording to the rule of the fervice, have himfetf coo- manded. This condu^ lliould raife him to a rank kiiiong thofe great and truly patribtk charaflen, wKo, in all ages, have, at times, forgotten the ingratitude ef individuals, the neglefl of thofe who ou^t to hive been their prote^ofs, and their own piivate adrannge, when pat in competition with the love and welfare of their cauntiT. His continuance in fcivice under the cir-r Cumllances he did, is not to be confid^ed as a deiog^lon from the chara£ier pf x brave and fpirited comimode'r, but aS the contempt of a mere pundiiio, which has E>eco» in other inliances, too <^n inlitM on to the maniiell in- jury of the flate. Such ti'e have fecn his piAlic fpirit in the civil line of his profcfltoo; in his tnilitary capa- city, his bravery, which wc have too faintly add weakly ftated, as exhibited at Gibraltiir, cannot place him too high in the elteem of every hiAorian, every lover of tiUc'gu- lantry, and every honeft man. JENNINGS, Thomas, — waj ^pointed firft lirate- naut of the Pcndennts on the 3bth of September i6.8g, Hevras promoted to the command of the Alexauder fire- ihip on the 2'9th of May 1689. In 1693 hewas captaki of the Viftory, the Ihip on board whiih fir John AOiby hoilted his Sag as admical of the blue fquadron. In 1695 he commanded the Shiewfburyy under lord Berkeley, ad- miral of the blue fquadron, and employed, at that time^ in the bombardment and attack of the French ports. In (he fame year he was afterwards promoted to the London^ a ftrik rate. In 1696 he ferved as fecond captain of the Britannia, firft under fir G. Kookc) and afterwards lonl Berkeley. After the peace at Ryfwic had taken place he Dili continued in commitlion. Early in the year 1701 he wafi appointed mailer- attendant at Woolwich yard ; an otiicc u that time fometimes held by captains in the navy. He was very foon fucceeded by captain Edward Whjtaker; and, inthc year 1703, retired, from this lineof naval fer- vice, on being appointed a commiflioncr of the vt^aHing- ' office. This ftation- be quitted in the following year, on 3 being, DolizodbvCoOglc NAVAL OFPICtRS OF GREAT MiTAIN. 26% being promoted to the office of comptroller of the accounts of the ilorc-leepers of tht navy. He retired altogether, ^ooi what may be called pubhc life, in the year 1714, with a peRfion of 250!. a year, which he enjoyed till tb> time of his death, on the 26th of Ofiober 1723' JENNINGS, Sir John, — was appointed lieutenant of the Pearl on the lath of May 1687 ; on the 27th of Au-i guH t688, of the St. David ; and, on the 32d of Deoem- bcr following, of the Swallow ; the lafl by comniilTioa from lord Dartmouth. On the i6th of November 1689, he was advanced to the command of tbc-Si. Paul firelhip; a ftaiion from which he was very fooa afterwards pro.) BQOted, but to what Ihip is not pofiiively Icnown. la 1690 he was captain of the Experiment, of thirty-two guns, at that linte employed as a cniiiing Oiip off the coaft erf Ireland, where he met with coofiderable fuccefs, hav- ing had the good fortune to intercept a number of fmall Vcflcls employed in the tranfportation of troops and ami- - lAunition lor the fcrvice of the exiled king's army in that country. 1^1691 he waa made captain of the Viflory under fir John Ajiiby. He remained in this (hip a very fhort 4ime ; and afterwards commanded the Winchetler of fixty guns, one of the (hips attached to the -main Sect; but was, m the month of July, removed into the Maty, a Quo of the fame force and rate, and employed alfo in the lame Jine <^ fervice, accompanying admiral RulTcl on bis cxpe- .dilion to the Mediterranean. He continued to cdmmaBd this fhip till the year 1696, when he was made captain of the ,Chicheftcr, of eighty guns. !n the month of Ja- nuary following he commanded the Plymouth, at that time employed asacniifmg fhip. On the 27th heftll in with and captured, after a longchace, a very fine privateer be- longing to St. Maloes, called the Concord, pierced for twenty-two guns; but, at the time Hie was. talcen, motutt- ingonly fourtoen. His good fortune did not end here, for, on the 5th of Fcbmary, having at that time the Rye frigate in company^ he difcovered, about eight o'clock in the morning, three (hips (landing towards him. He firf- fersd two of them to run within gun-lhot of him before ■* he pretended to obferve them ! finding the Plymouth, on tbeir nearer approach, to be a fliip of war, they bore away Jt 3 with jiriiiz,,! ...Google iil LIVES AND CHAKACT^KS OF ■with all the fail they could croud. Captain Jennings, In- bis turn, purfued them, and in about an hour's time got nearly along-fid^ of the largett. The enemy being ia confufion, threw their (hip up into the wind; by which ac- cident they loft their main-maft, and foie-top-maft : and en captain Jennings's firing a fingle gur\ at them, (truck; their colours. The prize was called the New Cherburg, built purpofely> at Marfcillcs, for a cruifei', and mounting thirty-fix guns. Tnc Rye coming up foon afterwards, captain Jennings left that fhip to take care of the prise, and wiihhisutmoft expedition made after the confort. . He came up with her about one o'clock. Her captain was a perfon of fame confequence, and endued with a bravery, encrcafed by defpair, to a pitch bordering alnioll on roinantic. Find- ing all farther attempts to cfcape would be vain, he reio* Jutely brought to, and en^ged the Plymouth for the fpacc of three hours: nor did he at laft furrender, till thirty- three of his people were either kitted or wounded. This fecond prize was called the Dolphin, a privateer belong- ing to St. Maloc's, mounting only twenty-eight guns, but manned with a chofcn crew, confifting of one hundred . and ninety-fix men. Captain Jennings lofl no longer time than was neceH lary to convoy his prizes into pert. Sailing immediately with his old confort, the Rye, he met with the S^evero man of war, which was at that time employed atfo on the cruifing fervicc. They all three flood over to the coaft of France ; and, on the 25th of the fame month, got figtit' of a French convoy of twelve Hiips, laden with wine from Bourdeaux. The Plymouth out-failing her companions, foon came up with the flcrnmoll of the merchant-fhips, which captain Jennings left to be fecurcd by the Rye and . Severn. He hiinfttf purfucd the convoy, which confifted of two fmall private mips of war belonging to Dunkirk, one mounting twelve the, other eight gum. The latter captain Jennings captured, as he afterwards did two of the merchant mips; his con forts taking four more. The peace at Ryfwic taking place in a few months after this time, we meet with nothing memorable relative to -this excellent commander till after the acceflion of queen Anne. He continued to be employed during the greatcft _ „,.,,,.,.,Coog[c HA VAC OmClIlS OTXIEAT BtlTAIN. 363. AeatefV pari, if- not ^e whole of king Wil!iaTii'& reigns But the time of peace, as'we have already frequently Ukcq occafion to remark, affording very few intereding p;irti> culars for the memoirs of the grcatcH charafli^s in his line of life, this breach in our narrative is the Icfs to be wondered at, though we have not been able to give even the name of the fliip or fhips he commanded during this pefiod. - On the recommcpcement of the war with France, in i,j4a, he was appointed to command the Kent, of feventy giins, and failed fooa afterwards, under dir G. Rooke, on the expedition agUnH Cadiz. At the attack on Vigo he ^ffilled as one of the feconds to vice-admiral Hopfon, who led the alTault with his divifion. After his return he was promotetl to the St. George, a lecond rate of ninety-fix guns. In this (Nation he accompanied fir C. Shovel, in the year 1703, on his fruitlefs voyagje to the Mediterrai, mean, for the relief of the Ccvengis. During tha next year (.I704jhefiill continued captain of the fame fliip, and waa yicfent, under lir G. Rooke, at the capture of Gibraltar^ 4nd the battle off Malaga, in whichlafthe wasftalidned as' {ihe of the fecondt to the commander-in-fhiaf. Hit conduct and gallantry, on this occafion, were fo remark- ably confpicuous and praife-worthy *, that, on the 9th of 0<^ober following, he received the honour of knizhthoocl» » an exprefs reward for the fcrvice he rendereif in that encounter. Oil the 24th of January 1 704-5, he was promtMed td be rear-admiraiof the blue; and being appointed to com-! mand in th^ Ibtion, under fir C. Shovel, joint-admiral of the main fleet, with the earl of Peterborough, was Ofderedt, as it is faid by Lediard, to colle& the Ihips of war at .Spithead, previous to Shovel's arrival'. This, although it is a circumftance ahnod too trivial to merit difpule, we are inclined to difbelieve, as we find, in the * He had forty-Gve men killed and nincty-tliree wounded. In [be account aiveii.publillicd by lutliority, of ibis battle, it ii pariicutarly faid, " Icreni) (faipi of the admiral'i, rccir-admlral Byne'i, and ccii^ ■dniiril Dilkci'i divifioni being forced 10 go out of the line for w«nt of ibot, ibe biHle fell very heavy od (be idminrt own fllip. ibe St. GiORCE.and Ihc Shrewniury." t Od ihc 71I1 of April. R4 Gazette, L„u,i,;™u,Cooglc 3^4 LtVtS AITB CfrAIACTSXS'OR Gazette, No. 41:13, th«t fir John, in all probability, hiS no flag hoifted till the 13th of May, at which time he accompanied admiral Shovel to Portfmouth, and immedi* ately repaired on board the Royd Anne. He appears t* have failed, with a ■ftrnng (te^achment of the fleet, under the command of vicc-admi rai fir George Byng, a few day* before fir Cloiidcfley, with the remainder, was ready for fea. The chief obje£l of the cruife was to reconnoltt« the harbour of Breft, in order to difcover whether the enemy had any fqnadron in that port read]t for 4H- Having received information that the French had eigh^ teen Qiips of the line there, completelyeqmppcd, ihefe Commanders repaired to the rendezvous alltgtied them, •ifheic they were joined by fil: Qoodefley Shovel ott the 27th of May. A council of war was tmmedtately held, in which it Was determined, that fir G. Byng, and fir J. Jennings, Aimild be left behind* with twelve ftips of the line, « fiigate, and a fircftiip.to watch the motio^is of the enemy. A difcretionary power was vefted in fir George either t* iilpatch Tcir-admtra! Jennings after the fleet, w the bay of Wares, or to retain him in foundings, according to Thft ihtcfligence lie might trfterWards receive relative to th* ■ Aiotions of ftc enemy. It was thonght moft vrudcmt to aijoptthe larer mcafure, and fir John removed his feg inta Ae Mary, a third rate- But the French (Sips cantinirin^ in port, we do-tiot meet with any thing more remerlcable (lerforLiTcd by this fouidron than the captnTC of a fewjni- Vatccrs •, which had for fome time infcfted the coaft df . Ireland. Sir John remrned into port, for the wiritCT, about the middle of November, having, as his laft piece ef fer- vice during this naval campaign, convoyed, from Ireland, an £a{t India fleet, which had put in there fome time before. The year 1706 affords us fbme particulars, relative *» the life of Thistirive and able commander, that are rather Wore interCfling than the foregoing. He was fcnt out, in the month of April, as fccond in command, under fjr G. Byng, of the reinforcement difpatchtd to iir John Lcakc' • "One of twcniyiwoguDi, one flf 6xie«n, and one of foiirteeB, capmred'iD tbe dodlIi of Ociobci,"— Gucne, Ho. 4<7i> DiQiiizctiDyGooglt: ttAVAt OfflCXaS OF OftEAT KKITAtH. ' 265 at Lilbon. ThM admiral having fililcd from thence be* fore their arrival, they proceeded after him to the Medi- . terranean, and joineij him on tbc 30th of April. The . fiiil lervkc undertaken by the fleet was the relief of Barcelona. Sir John Jennings, with Hf George Byn& and feveral of the thips which came from England witG AexD, carrying a prefs of fail, being alfo prime failers and' ' juft off the ground, arrived off that ci^ (bme hours before, their camrailes, and were very near furpriiiog aad c^- 'turing feveral (^ the enemy's Ihips, the rear of whole fleet they got (ieht of, as it quitted Barcelona road in great Afordcr. The iiege being effedually raifed/ and ^. ' foldiers embariod, the fleet failed, on the 7th of May, f(» Valencia, where the troops were, immediately landed. It tras afterwards refolved to proceed to Alicant : but in- fimodion beittg received, while the fleet was on its pafr face tJiixhec, that the inhabitants of Canhagena wjlhed omr for the prefence oi the fleet, and an opportunity of decking for kin^ Charies the Third, it was immediately deteminedtBfteer thither. The fleet arrived on the iidof June, and the .conditions of fivrender* were Anally fettled 'Ae foJlswing day. It tnay hitherto bethought, this Ihort detaiiof (he openiions of the fleet, in which fir John Jennings af^exn to have had no particular coocciii, has been unmcefl'acil)' introduced here. Bui it has been ne- txHtry, i^ Older the better to connedl the narrative, as we ftaN BOW &xl him entering into a more adive fcene of life. On the Qineoder of Canhagena, and the failing of the alia body of the fleet from th^tiue. Or John Jennings was left ixhind, with a fniall fquadron of four fhips of tlic line, to arrange the civil government, and fecurc the fu. ture internal tranquillity of that city. This lafk he very lii^emty and judidouny fulHtltd, to the fatisfaflion of •U ibe sahabjtMita, and in fo Ihort a time, that in lefs * The luihoT of rhr Life of Gr John Leikc ififormi ui, iliai whca Ae fleet firft irrm^ offCvrdnt^cnt ihere apprarcd iomc kcriiationai to ibc furrender oa ibe .ptti of ihe SpAiuriu ; ind ih.ii on ihii iccuant £r Joba Jennioji* wu appoiiiud, wiih (he En^lilh •mi Dutch tbipt of the liae, to ctaaoiiMlc ihc city, in Miack, ibe fubmiOicia of ibe infai. bitauu ifcecwtKit preveoied. ' thali _,.,i,.™:,., Google 2^6 LIVES AKb 'dLARACTEKS OF than fix weeks he was enabled to quit it and join fir Joia ' Leake, who was then engaged in the ficge of Altcant. Sir John Jcnnines arrived off that place on the a4th of July ; and fcvcral breaches having been made in the forti- ikations next the Tea, by a furious cannonide from the fltips, a general alTauIt, both from the fea, and the land- fide, was refolved,to be made on the 28th. The former of thefe was commanded by fir John, who having ovcr- eofnc every impediment, notwithftanding the attack from tfie land was at firit repulfed, fucceeded in making him<' ftlf mafter of the town, with the very inconfiderable lofs" of thirty, or, as fome fay, oniy feventeen men. During this very fpiritcd encounter lie had a very narrow efcape, lieutenant-colonel Petit being killed by a muflcet-fhot* from a window, while (landing clofe by him. Thecaftle, into which the garrifon retired, having furrendered about tfie middle of Augiift, the fleet failed for Altea bay, when it arrived on the 22d. ^ir John was detached from thoice' for JLifbon with nine or ten fliips of the line*, two fri- gates, and a firefiiip, which he was ordered to icfit there,'' and from thence to fail,for the Weft Indies. The greateft poflible difpatch was ufed by him, after his arrival, in getting his fquadron ready for fea, infomuch that he was enabled to fail by the 15th of . Oftobcr; Contrary winds much impeded his voyage, prevented his setting mto Madeira, and compelled him to bear away lOr Santa Cruz, where he difcovcred five Ihipi' hawlnt clofe in under the forts. He attempted to take or deftroy them, but was unfortunately obliged to detill, finding it impra^icable, except by incurring the ri(k of difabling fome of his fhips, an hazard he was certainly not war. ranted in venturing on, for fo triviil a prolpe£t of ad- vantage. Having obtained a fupply of /refh provifions and water at St, Jago, where he arrived on the +th of November, he £uled for Barbadoes, and anchored in Carlifle bay on the a9th. On the 5lh of December he departed for Jamaica, * Thefe weie the DevonftiiK and CuinbcrUnd, of eighly.gijns ; the Norihumbr.Und, EfTcx, Reroluibn and Firme, offcveniy; the Monk, Caatcihuiy and Miry, of Gxij; ihc Gnland aad Fakoo fn- f die*, tad Hiuiier fireOiip. io _ ,i,z<,i:,., Google NAVAL OFFICESS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 267 in order, from ihence, to carry into execution the remain- ing part ot hisiA{triiflions, which part, indeed, connituted the principal objed of the voyage. 'ITiis was to induce, by the appearance of a formidable naval force, capable of proteiEling them, the Spaniartls in that part of the world, to declare in favour of king Charles. In this hope, fir John having arrived at Jamaica on the 2d of January, loon afterwards difpalched the Mary to Carthagena, with a letter to the governor, in which, after having given him a vety circiimltantial account of the various fuccelTes of the allied powers in Europe, and particularly in Spain, he ufed every poflible argument to induce him to put hitnfelf under hisproiedtion, by renouncing the duke of Anjou. He offered alfo to take the galleons under his convoy, and fee litem io fafeiy to Europe. The governor civilly declined accepting the offer, and modeftly enough excufed his com- pliance with the former part of the propofal j informing ur John at the fame time, that he had jud before leceivea advices from Spain, by which he was affiired that the fcale hiL. again turned in favour of king Philip, who was once more in polTeflion, not onlv of Madrid, but all thofe polls which had lately been in the hands of his opponents. Unfavourable as this anfwer was, fir John was refolved to try, as his laft hope, whether the appearance of his fleet before the port of Carthagena would not induce the governor ana council to alter their refolution ; he accord- ingly proceeded thither with his whole fquadron, except the Northumberland. The Spaniard, however, pcrfift- ing in his refulal, and fir John not being authorlfed by his in(tru£tion5 to ufe violent or compulfivc meafures, nd al- ternative was left him but To return to Europe. Having taken a neceffary fupply of water, and fitted tiis fhips, as well as circumffances would admit of, he failed from Blue- fields on the 25th of February, and arrived at Spithead* after a very favourable palTage, on the 22d of April. 1'he want of fuccefs on this occafion roufed not that clamour which rarely fails to attend it ; the peo- ple and the fovereign, both perfectly convinced or the ability, as well as integrity of^their commander, commi- ferated his difappointment as much as they did their own. Sir John does not appear to have had any command iuiiae the remainder of this year; but, on the loth of Dc. ..Cookie S(8 ttTBS AND CHAKACTES5 OF Dc«mber following, was promoted to be rear-admiral of the white; as he ivas^ on the 8th of Jahuaiy cnfuing, to be rear- admiral of the red: he had fervcd fomc yeais as reai-adiniral of- the blue : and at that day it was ra- ther extraordinary for fo a^ive and well-efleemcd Z commander to remain in the fame llaiion fo long without experiencing promotion ; but now the current had once found its channel, it appeared to rufh on him like a torrent, for, on the 26th of the fame month •, he was ftill farther advanced, to be vice-admiral of the red. When tbe French, in the month of March following, meditate^ tbe jnvaHon of Scotland, he was appointed commander- ip-chicf in the Thames and Medway, in arder to expe- dite the equipment of al! the fliips that could be fitted out frODP Chatham and Woolwich. On that extraordinary emergency he acquitted himlelf with the greateft credit. Towards the latter end of the year IJ08, he was fent qui, under the orders of fir George Byng, to Lifton ^nd tbe Mcdlicii^ne^n. Although nothing very confequential happiEned during this expedition, we Snd ourfelves oblt^d U> confume fomc time in relating fuch circumdances as we have been .able to colle£l. When Gr fjeorge failed, 4n the 27th of December, f^orn Lilbpn for the meditfr- i^cpn, Vt tth part 0/ t)ie .fieet, lie left frr Joho with the rc- tpainder tff guard the mouth of the StrcighlS. Jn the Jailer end of May 1709, h* failed for the Mediieiranean, " IP join the commander-in-chief, with a fquadron of tixtcen Aiips of wax, and about fo/ty tfanfports, which he had vaaei his convoy, laden with ll«rc£ and provifions. T^e jun£lion was effeficd at Barcelona on the 8th of June i and fi council of iwar being Ueldi >' was there determined to be neccirary to Tend bacik 9 fuStcieni fqtjjdron for the proreflion of the coaft of Portugal, 1 "nis fervice was allotted to fir John Jennings, who ^iled accordingly, about Ae middle nf June, with ten fliips of the line and three frigates. " We find no notice taken of any thing material that o^curnd during the time he held this command ; nor do we know precifely the time when he returned to Bngland : huweverj on the 9th of November following, I^e was promoted to be admiral of the blue. • January^S7C7-8. Early _ ,1,.™:,., Google havAl optiCbts of gkeat Mitaih. ' 2(9 Early in the year 171 1, having been adranced to be adtnij^l of the ^^'hite, he was appninted commanHei-in- thief in the MeUiferranean, He failed from St. Hden'» 6n the 7th of January, and arrived at Lifbon on the 2^. He fbid here fomt weeks to collefl the fti/ps he ivas to convoy to the Mediterranean ; and arrived with them at Barcelona on the zoth 6f March, Repeated defeat and misfortune had long tince Convinced the French of the 1 folly oi equipping large' fleets: thefe had always betn uniible'to contend with thofe of ihe allied powers. Their fyflem of naval war was coinpletejy changed; and they contented themfelves with fending out, occdfionaUy^ Onall fquadrons, and Itngle fhips, to kteep the fpirits of the people alive by the depredations thcfe^efultory cruifei enabled theni to commit on our commerce. The atten- tion of the Britlfb commanders were, therefore, princi- pally dire£ted to its protection, and in properly giiarding the reinforcements of troops, as well as (lores and provi- fidns, to their fevcfal pkces of deiUnation. We are not* therefore, to be furprifed at freqnently finding exploits, during this period, more interefling in the lives of private captains, than ih thofe of the lUofl celebrated cdm- mandcrs in a higher Dation. But to return to lir John. Having regulated and dtf- patched the necefTary convoys from Barcelona, he failed. from thence forPortMahon, where he was joined, on the igth of May, by vice- adniiral Baker, and feveral (hips^ he returned to Barcelona on the ift of June. ' After a fliort ftay in that port he Tailed for Totilon, ■ in hopes of intercepting fome of the enemy't com fhips' from the Levant. On his return to Barcelona, after a rtiort cruife, he received inlelligenee of an event which occafiofied a new arrangement of the future operations; this was the death of the emperor Jofe[Sh; in confeqiience of Which king Charles became the prefumptive heir to the Impe- rial crown. Sir John received orders from the Britifb Court to convoy his majeOy back to Genoa in cafe he fhould think proper to return to his hereditary dominions ; and to provide for the tranquillity of the city of Naples, againft any commotion that mi^.t probably trife during the then critical fituation of atfiiirs. 1 he king himfclf appeared} at firll,'very irrefolute, not wlfhing to ^icCa- ' ulonia LlulNzcuyCOOglC f; 276 , LIVES AND CHAKACTBRS Ot ulonia till he had pofitive information of his betng a£td-' ally clewed emperor; and at the fame time appearing very unwilling to fuffer the fleet to depart, as the very Tafetyof theSpanilhcaufe, and all hopes of future fuccefs, were principally to be fullained by it. In this ftate were affairs when fir J6hn found it abfulutely necelTary to prO' ceed to Mahon in order to refit ; and in this, ting Charles at laft acquicfced, after having cxa3ed from him a pofitive promife that he would return to Barce- lona as foon as he had obtained the necelTary fupplies, and >ut his Ihips into a proper condition'for fervice. Sir John {Iriilly adhered to it, returning to Barcelona road on the 26th of July*, with fourteen Englifli and Dutch Aiips of the line. The re(t of the fhips of his fquadron, amounting to eight or ten fliips of the line, being detached on different fcrviccs, with orders to rendezvous at Barce- lona, he did not think it proper to fail from thence' till they had all rejoined him. His force, however, being completely colk^ed by the beginning of September, the king, who had now refolved to depart for Germany, em- barked with fir John, who failed from Barcelona on the t6th ; and, after a pafTage of ten days, landed his soajefty in fafety at Genoa. Sir John failed almod immediately afterwards fot Leghorn, in order to procure cables, and feveral other Aons, of which he ftood much in need. Having fupplied himfelf with thefc, he repaired to Vado bay oa the 3d of November; where having caufed the troops, deftined for Catalonia, to be embarked, he put them under the proteSion of captain Swanton, with five Ihips of the line and two fircfhips; accompanying them himfelf, for their better lecurity, as far as Cape Rofes; and intend- ing, afterwards, to proceed, with the remainder of the fifuadron, for Minorca. Off that iHandhe encountered 4 -dreadful Horm; in which fevcral of his fhips fuHained <:onfiderabIe damage in their inafls and rigging; buthadt however, the good fortune to get into Port Mahon, on the followingday, without having fuftained any more feriaus injury. T"he remainder of the year was fpent in fending DolizodbyGoOgle Ma^al officers of great tiiTAiH, • 471 out, from time to time, fmall fquadrons, on fliort cniirct, for the purpofe of diftrefling the enemy's commerce. About Chriftmas the admiral received intelligence that the French were bufily employed in equipping a fquadron of eight (hips of the line and four frigates, at T ouloh, which were intended for fea early in the enfuing fpfing, and detained for the Weft Indies. This armament ^ being of too much confeqiience to be difregarded, and he ■ himfclf too modeft to inift his own judgement, a council of M'arwascalled on the 22d of February ; in which, after hav- ing carefully enquired into the ftate of the fhips, it was found they could not proceed to fea till tliey had procured a fupply ■of provifions. A frigate was, in confequence, difpatched to vice-admiral Baker, at Lifboo, with inllruflions toiake 'every pofTible precaution for the fafe conduit of the fleet of viCTuallers foon expeflcd from thence, as the future ■fervice of the fleet fo materially depended on their arrival. The neccffarv recruit of ftoHes and provifions having reached Mahon, a fecond council of war was held on the Illh of March, in which it was determined to put to fea immediately with all the (hips that were at that time in a condition for fervice. Thefe amounled to eleven fhips of the line, four frigates, and two firefhips; they ftretched over to Cape Toulon, off which it was intended to cruifc until fomc certain advice could be colleflcd relative ■ to the enemy. But information being received, a few days afterwards, from captain Walpole, of the Lion, that he had feen nine large ihips to the north-weft of Minorca, it was refolved to proceed to the fouthward of Majorca and Yvica, in order, if poflible, to intercept the enemy In their pafTage down the Streights. This meafure proving tmfuccefsful, the admiral came to an anchor, on the ift of April, off the ifland of Formentura; and, after having difpatched two of his bell failing frigates to look into the feveral ports and bays, where it might be moft probably prefumed the French fhips had taken fhelter, failed to Barcelona to wait their return. No fatisfaftory or inte- rcfling intelligence being procured by thefe means, fir John continued in that port till he was joined, in the tnonth of May, by the Dutch vice-adt^iral, having under his convoy a fleet of tranfpOtts, with near fjx thoufatid .- troops en board. Thefe being difembarl(ej, and the 6 eniperor _ IN.™ .., Google 3^2 UTES JUID CRABACTEM OV CHiperori as well s$ couBt Sraremtmrg, ven defitmu of having a large body of cavalry elcorted from Italy to Catalonia, the admiral failed to Vado ; Uom whence, having the troops juft meptioncd under his prote^ioD, he returned to Barcelona on the 7ih of Augult. In about a month after this he received official in- formation of the fufjpenfion of arms; and, at the fame time, fpecial inAm«ions from lord Bo'tngbroke, then fecrCtary of Itate, to fitfTcr a '''J^^ ^'^^^ fleet, bousd foi France, to pafs unmoleDed. This had been long ex- pe£led ; and, but for itiefe orders, vrould, from the pre- cautions he had taken, have certainly fallen into the ad- miral's hands. The operations of war being now clofcd^ it might natujalty be fuppofed a life of cafe and inadivity would have fucceeded to thofe fatigues of watchful fcr- vice, iu which he had, for fo many years, been engaged, and in which care and diligence, (King the only exertions that were, on his part, necelTary, coldly fupplied in tht . opinion of the people, the mote attraSive, thoi^ not more valuable purfuits of cuterprife and glory. He cannot, however, be faid to have remamed inafiate of ufelefs inaflivity, ootwithflandingho{liIities hadceafed between the allied powers. The Salletinc corfatrs had of late committed fome ai^s of violence: thefe ficjohji, during the enfuing winter, not only took care properly to repre5, but alfo to prevent the repetition of. In the (pring he had the honour of convoying the emprcfa from Barcelona to Genoa. At his departure Ihe prelented him with her picture fet with diamonds ; and, as an addiHoiAl mark of her peifonal edeem, gave his nephew a very va- luable diamond ring. The other ferviccs he was engaged in during the year 1713, were the conveyance back to Italy, of the troops, that had been employed in the fervice of the allies, amounting to thirty thuufand men ; an undertaking of much difhculty, though not of danger. He afterward) conduced the duke and dutchefs of Savoy from ViUt Franca to Sicily, their new kingdom. Having then completely fulfilled all his in(lru<£tions, he obtained per- milhon to refign his command and return home, by land, . through France. He arrived at Paris on the i6di of November, and in England » few days afterwards. DiailizodbvGoOglf KAVAL OFCICERS OF OIEAT f RITAIK. 27] During the remainder of queen Anne's rejgn hc.pippcars to have fought, in iciirenaent, Toms reft and refrelhiiitnt, after the fatigues of inind as well as body he had fo Jatd)- endured. The conviilfions of the dotneftic government w country, and the rancour of party, which probably never were carried to a greater height than at this period, in all likelihood contributed not a Utile to his having, in fonxe degree, quitted the fervice, for a fliort time, as, at the acceflioD of George the Fiilt, he was not upon the lift of admirals. Immediately, however, after that monarch landed, aq almofV complete change took place in the naval dvpart- menl ; and, in confequcnce, fir John Jennings, who Hood among the highell in the royal favour, was appointed one of the cotnmiirioners of the admiralty, an office in which he continued during the whole of tliis reign. Early in the year 1716, he was again called into aftivc fervice as admiral of the white, and appointed to command a fqua- dron of ten Hiips of the line, fent to the Frith of Edin- burgh, in conlequencc of the pretender having, a fliort lime before, Jandrd in Scotland. Sir John repaired by land to Edinburgh, and hoifting his flag on ooard the Oxford, took upon him the command on the ift of Fe- bruary. He immediately detached feveral fhips to attend the motions of the king's forces, and render them every adiflance in their power where neceifary or pofTiblc, and at the fame time to dillrefs the .rebels by harraJling their pnfts near the cor.Hs and intercepting their fuppHes. It is next to impoffiblc for any man, however meritorious his conduiSl, who is inverted with a high and cunfi'qucn- tial command,- to cfcape the malignity and envy of thofe wlio atfefl to be of, what is called, an opponte parly, 'riie cfcape of the pretender afforded theio wliat they thought fufTiciem ground for clamour againft a man, whirfc known 'zeal for the oppofite intcreft raifed him far above fiifpici- on, had his,.a£)Jvity in this fervice been Icfs confpicuous than it really was. But the fovereign, and his miniflers, did ample jufiice to their own choice by refuting this unge- nerous calumny, in an account, publifhed in the Gazette, of the feveral operations previous to the complete fup- preflion of the rebellion, arJ in pariicular of iuch as the naval force was more imnwdiately concerned in. Vol. II. S From L„u,i,;™u,Cooglc 174- LtVSS AMD CtlAKACTIKS Of Fremthis it ipMircd, that the pretender put to fea \o X clean tallowed French fnow, witn her fails furled ; that fhe rowed clofe along Ihore till (he had cleared all the Eritifh Ciuifers ; that the night was fo dark when this rtfTcl eTcaped*, that it was impoflible to difcern any objeA at the diftaiice of a quarter of a mile ; that the Royal Anne galley, the Port Mahon, the Peari, the Deal Cattle, and the Phcenix, were at ihe very time ftationed off the harbour of Aberdeen, whence it got out ; and that their command- ers ufed every polTible diligence and endeavour to intercept the Pretender, as well as on every occafion to promote the gt-neral fervice. In proof of this we find, intheGazette alluded to, the following remarkable fentencc; " All the fliips kept the fea diligently, when wind and weather would permit, and obferved the motions of his majefly's army fo carefully, that the duke of Argj'ie did not pafs through any poft town without finding feme Ihip ready, to carry into execution any fervice ne might have t« propofe." From this time we meet with nothing very intcrefling relative to fir John, till the 28th of Auggft 1720, when he was appointed ranger of Greenwich park, and governor of the hofpital ; of which noble inditution he proved a mnft worthy ruler and proteaort, A greater compli- ment, pcrliaps, could not at that time have been paid him, than in having appointed him fucccfTor to fo good and wor- thy a man as lord Aylmcr ; and it is but bare juIHce to his memory to affert, he did not derogate from the well- known virtues of his prcdcceilbr. In the month of No- vember he was appointed to command the convoy which • On the 3d of Fehriwrj', ihice itjt onljr ifret fir John h»d ufcco ibr comrnaril. + A nohie flatue, of Gcoip the Fird, cul out of i block of white mirblc, taken in i Ficnfh fhip, by fir George Rookc, wai prcfented by him, ind \t enQri in ibe cenicr of the ireat (qiiarc of the hofpi- .here: we iceeding j^ood portiitl of him, xc full Icnffih, painted bj iirdfon, i) ptercrved in the council room there : we know not, :ver. (a wtA (( fuadc ourfclvti of ilt bdnf; > icprefcnlation of the admi Biinder-incbicf of ihc Biiiilb SfKt. Thii iiocnfioned hj bit being painted in the whimfical habit of the tiniest ifull drcfi fuit of brown Tclvei, railed up Uuckiagi, aod immente fquare loed fhoci. attended DiailizodbyGoO^IC NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BHITAIN. 275 attended the king from Helvoetfluys to Margate : after which he does not appear to have been employed in tho line of aflive fervicc till the year 1726, when he was ap- pointed to command a fquadron of nine (hips of the line, which the intrigues of the Spaniih court induced the Bri- tifh government to fend to the Mediterranean. He failed from St. Helen's on the aoth of July; but was obliged, by a contrary wind, to put into Torbay, where he conti- nued till the 23d. On the 3d of Augull he arrived in the bay of St. Anthonio, where he found two Spaniih Ihips of war, one of firventy, the other of fixty guns ; to whiizh he never offered the fmalleft violence. The Spaniards themfelves were in the utmofl agitation and confternation. All the regular troops in the neigh- bdurhood of St. Anthonio were drawn thither, as in ex- pe£tatian of an immediate dcfcent; which, indeed, was fufliciently warranted by the unprovoked conduct of the governor, who ordered feveral (hot to be fired at the head- molt Ihips, as though they had been declared enemies. The prudent, cool condu£l of the admiral prevented any farther ill confeguences ; he contented himfelf with fend- ing an officer alhore to expoftulate on the impropriety of fuch behaviour ; and an handfomc apology, on the part of the a^reffors, inftantly heated the breach. On the 8th the admiral failed for the Groyne, and on the 25th reached Lilbon. Here he was received with the utmoll politencfs, attention, and honour ; the king of Portugal, giving him an audience, and ilfuing orders that the fqua- dron Ihould be immediately fupplicd with whatever flores or refrefliments the Ihips, or their crews, flood in need of. The admiral quilted theTagus on the 25ih of Auguft, and anchored in the bav of Bulls, near Cadiz, on the 31ft. He was here received with the utmoft civility, not- withltanding it is fatd the people were every where in the utmod conflernation, and adually retired feveral leagues up into the country. The alarm was extenfive, for a ftrong reinforcement was immediaicly marched to augment the garrifon of Cadiz ; and the moll vigorous meafurei were immediately ufed to put that city into the befl pof- Cblc {late of defence. The very appearance of this ii^uadron, for that time effeAually intimidated the St Spaniards L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: S7^ Lives And chakactsrs op Spaniards from all hofHIe defigns. This being the.role end oC its equipment, fir John quitted Cadiz the latter end ef September; and, after a very (hort flay at Lifbon, re- turned to Spilhead, where he arrived, after a long pafTage, on the 22d of Oftobcr. With this expedition ends the naval life of (ir John Jennings. He continued to live ever afterwards in peaceable and honourable retirement, quitting the office of commiflioncr of the admiralty on the acceflion of king - George the Second, and refigning alfo his rank as an ad- miral, which he had till then retained, in the year i734- The honorary civil appointment of rear-admiral of Eng- land was given him in the month of January 1732-3; but that appears to have been bellowed only as a refpcdable mark of the fovercign's hearty approbation and eitecm for his former lervices, inafmuch as, being a mere finecurc, it interfered not with that repofc from the fatigues of duty which he continued to enjoy happily, unenvied, and uninterrupted, till the time of his death, which hap- pened on the 23d of December 1745, at which time he had attained a very advanced age. Few men, through fo long and adtive a fervice, ever enjoyed Icfs opportunity of dittingiiifliing ihcmfelves ; yet what did fall within his power he improved to the utmoft ^vantage, and on fuch occafions ajforded the world as Jlrong a proof of his bravery, and contempt of danger, as he did, at all other times, of his prudence and ability as a great commander. Campbell veryjuftly pays him the compliment of having been one of the greateit feamen of the age; and his poKtical integrity none have, we believe, ever oared to queftion. Without entering into the fac- tious views of party, or fupporting the ambition of a corrupt adminiftration, he always proved himfelf the honed fiiilhnil fubje^ of his fovereign, and the lincere friend of his native country. In fiiort, he was, as an officer, brave, cool, diligent, and determined; as a (iatefman, honeft and unfufpefted; an^l, as a private gentleman, friendly, generous, and humane. KIGGINS, William, — was appointed commander of the Nathaniel firethip on the 19th of November 1689; in 1)693 ^^ commanded the Greyhound, of fixteen guns, a (hip employed merely as a packet between Harwich and .1 ■ - Helvoei- L„u,i,;™u,Coo^Ii: NAVAt OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 277 HeTvoelfluys, but which, neverthelcfs, ranked as a frigate of war. In 1694 he was promoted to the Montague of Itxty guns, a ihip employed as a cruifer to the uoithward. This Itation affording but little opportunity of acquiring fame, we meet with nothine more femarkable than hie capturing, in the month of June a large French ihip laden with corn, and mounting twenty-eight guns. In 1095, he was made commander of the Arundel, of thirty- two guns, a new (hip jufl off the (tocks. In the coiii- niand of this Ihip he died, on the i6th of Septembier 1698. MA ■MARSHALL, Thomas, — ^was app,0)nted captain of the Thomas and Elizabeth firefhip on the 3d of April 1689 ; and died, as it is fuppofed, in the fame command on the 29th of Auguft i69o*. MARTIN, Henry, — was appointed, by lord Dart- mouth, firft lieutenant of the Dreadnought on the 19th of December 1688. On the i6th of June 1689, he was promoted to th« command of the Berwick, of feventy guns, a fliip which he continued captain of many years, and io which he very much diftinguifhed himfelf, boih in the battle ofFBeachy Head, and thafofF La Hogue. In the months of January and February 1693-4, he was em- ployed as a fmgle cruifer, and met with fir^lar fuccefs in re-capturing a number of very valuable Engiiih mer, chant-fhips, which had been taken by the enemy's priva- teers. In 1694 he failed, under the command of" admiral Ruflel, for the Streights: and in the month of February ■1694-5, was fent home from Cadiz with a convoy, which he conduced in fafety to Spithea'd, where he fafely arrived on the igih of March, At this time he quitted the command of the Berwick. He continue in conllant commi(fion, nptwithftanding the peace which took place at Ryfwic in 1697. In the year 1701 he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral, and fent 10 the Well Indies* having hotfted his flag on board the Defiance. He did not long enjoy this appointment, dying on the 19th of February 1701-2, * Thi) infoTTnaiiun, ilibiiugh it is ihc bcft vre have been able la procure, we much difcredit 1 a weii/isft thii gentleman lohavc lived * conliderable lime after itiif, ^nd to liave gvi:u commanded tbe ifle of W'ali' J^cbl in 1693. 53 MEES, u:.,i,z™u.,Coogli: 278 IIVES A»m CnAKACTBRS OF MEES, George, — ^was appointed lieutenant of the Swan On the 7th of July 16B6 ; on the 6th of April 1689, he was promoted to the command of the Jcrfey, of fony-cight gum ; and early in the following year was fiill farther ad- vanced to be captain of the Exeter, of fcvcnty gur.'. He commanded this ihip at the ever memorable battle off Eeachy Head, where he behaved with great gallantry, and exert«lhimfelf much, though unfortunately, without fuc> cefs, tofave the Ann, which being totally difmafted in that adion, 'afterwards went afliore and was deftroyed. In 1691 he was made captain of the Ruby, a fourth rate, and employed principally on the cruIUng fervjce. In the monthof April 1692, he wasappointed command- ing officer of a fmaJl fquadron of fix mips of war, fent to convoy a Aeetof coaflers and merchant-thips to the north- ward. He did not, however, long continue on this fervicc, returning in time to join the main fleet previous to the en- gagcmeiit off La Hogue : after which he was fent expreft, by fir Ralph Delaval, to England, with the news of his having burnt the Soleil Royal, the count de Tourville's flag Ihip, together with his two feconds, the Conquerant and Admirable. On his return to the fleet he was detached, by admiral Rufle!, with eight Englilli and Dutch frigates, to recon- noitre the port of St. Maloe's ; a fervice he very diligently executed, having acquired a pcrfefl knowlege 01" the dirpolition of the French (hips of war at that port, and autnentic information that all the tranfport fliips, which had been colJeAed at Havre de Grace ior the purpofe of invading England, were complctelvdifperfcd. Soon after this he was made captain of the York ; and in the month of January 1692-3, being then on a cruife, in company with the Dover, fell in with and captured two large French privateers; one of them called the St, Anthony, of Nantes, carrying twenly-ftx guns, fix paiararocs, and ont hundred and thirty men; and the other, railed the Ma- riana, of St. Maloe's, carrying fixteen guns and one hundred and four men. He continued in this kind of fervice during the enfuing fpring, and met with that fuc- cefs which might naturally be expcfled to attend acliviiy and diligence; particularly in the month of April, he captured _-,i,z<,i:,., Google NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 3^^ ' captured a line new privateer, of fourteen gims, called the prince (if Wales, having one of the Ute king James's cotn- milHon.'!. On the 231! of May following he was promoted to the OtTory of ninety guns, one of the fl>ips belonging to the main fleet. He did not long continue in this command, being, in the followinir month, appointed^ by the joint- admirals, Killfgrew, Delaval, and Shove!, to command under them, their flag fhip, the Britannia. Having, foP three years afiiT this time, always commanded fome iarge fhlp attached to the main fleet, we have, during that period, nothing memorable to relate of him. In 1696 he was appointed to command the Sandwich, of ninety guns, which was ftationcd to lead the Englilli dl- vifion of the fleet. In the month of July he was detach- ed, by lord Berkel[;y, at that time commander-in-chief of of the combined fleet, with a fquadron of ten fliips of war and fcveral bomb-ketches, to bombard Sr. Martin's, on the ifle of Rhe ; a fervice he very effeilually performed afi appears by the annexed account*. Soon after his return from this expedition he was fent, with a final) fquadron, to cruife in foundings ; in which he, if poUible, cncreafcd • •< Wbirchill, My 95, 1696. Oo (he 3d inflant lord KetVcUf detached fir Mini q Beck mai), wiih ibe boiub-vcOclt and » Iquadron or ten Ihipiof viT, under ihe command of capiain Meet. On il>« 5th I hey arrived ticforc Si. Mariin'i.in the iOc of Rhe, going in ugdet French coloun, which ihcy (Iruck u Toud at ihev hid mtho'ed. In ihe evcninjt thry becan not! fiom other part) of ibe town, and many mottarii from whick ihcy filed briikly igainQ the affailanli, but did them very little damage. On the 7[h the ftjuadton failed for Olnnne, where it arrived the lamf cveninf^ and immediately began (o boinbard that place, which wat ' continued |iU pcxt 4iy. The enemy had a battery of ciKhi gum upon ■ poiiii of land j^oing into the baibour, but fired very feldom after ihft Gill hour, the bombi having dil'muunted fame of ibcir gum. Ons ihoiif^nd nine hundred and ninny- Gx bombiind carcafetwctc expend- cd with all the cITea that could be f xpcaed. The Aifi of wn ai.d konib-kciiJiM iben rejaiiKd ibe fleet, whicb it fiofe eome into Terbay." i9 4 that L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: iSb LIVES AKD CHARACTERS CT that reputttton he had already acquired, by his very great diligence and atrcntion to the proteflion of trade. During this fliortcniife he had the good fortune to capture three Jargc French privateers; one of them mounting thirty- eight, a fecond thirty-fix, and a third fourteen guns. In the month of February 1^96-7, he was appointed commodore of a fmall fquadron delUncd for the Weft Jndies, to reinforce vice-admiral Neville, who was or- dered thither from the Mediterranean, Mr. Mccs is erroncoufly faid, by fnme, to have been promoted to be rear-admiral of the blue on the 3d of February 1696.7. This is moft certainly a miftake: he never attained any higher rank in the fervice than that of commodore, ahho' he is called a rear-aHmiral, by Campbell, who isin gene- ral very accurate in thofe points. He only had the orivilcge conferred on him, of wearing the blue fl^g at fiis mizen -top while in the Weft Indies. But to return 10 the expedition ilfclf. The commo- dore, with the fhips under his command, failed from the Downs on the i6th of Febiuary, but was compelled lo put back on the following day by a contrary wind. On the 22d he again put to fea ; and, after having (taid two days at St. Helen's to collefi his convoy, failert ^om thence on the :^6lh. The appointed place of rendezvous was off Madeira ; but the' Seer feparating in a fog, foon after it had paffed the Ifle of Wight, no veffeis but the Brifh;l and the Lightning firefhip kept company wiih ihe commo- dore to that ifland; the others made tlie bed of their way to Barbadoes, where the vice-admiral and Mr. Mccs ar- rived on the 17th of April. The fevcral combined ope- rations of this unfortunate fquadron having been already e'fen in the life of Mr. Neville, no farther notice need taken of them here. About the latter end of June Mr. Mees was detached, with nine (hips, to deftroy the fetttc- ment of Petit Guavas. The difpofition made by him for this attack was mafterly in the highed degree ; and nothing but the mifcondu£t of the men, which ii was not in the power of the commodore to prevent, deprived him of ihc moft brilliant fuccefj. A detachment of nine hundred men being formed from the (hips, two hundred and fifty of them were put on board a (loop, oofi hundred on boatd a fifth tate, and th« remainder L„u,i,;™u,Coo^Ii: HAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 28t remainder into the boats belonging to the fquadron, with the laft the commodore himftif proceeded, leaving (lie two veflels al)out fixteen leagues from Ibc place, with orders to lay to, fo long as not to reach Petit Guavas before the next moming; and, afterwards, finding himfelF unable to reach (he port himfclf during the night, he difp itcht.d in- firuflions for the captains of the veflels to wait till ibe following day. Hitherto every thing wore a mod favour- able afpcifl. The commodore reached the place of defti- nalion, wiib his fleet of boats, uiidifcoveredj and landed, at halt pad three in the morning of the 23d, ^bout a mile to the eallward of Petit Guavas. His little army confifted of four hundred men; he himfelf afling as commanding officer, ailifted by feveral ol" the captains of th« fijuadron*. They marched direfllj forward for the town ; and although the velFels, jufl meo- tioncd, were not vet arrived, and feveral pf the boats, having on board about an hundred men, were unable to keep up with the commodore, he thought it more prudent to attempt the place by a coup-dL'-mainj with his fmal) force, than to give the enemy time to colleift, by difco^ VJring himfelf, and waiting till his rear fliouldcomc up. This meafure baingunanimoufly agreed to, he entered the town at day-break, and immediately attacked and forced the grand guard. This being accomplilhed, he detached a body of one hundred men to take poITcdion of two batteries of four guns each i which being effe£led, without oppofilion, the enemy evacuated the ionn, As the day advanced, and no farther oppcfitioij on the part of the enemy beipg dreaded by the afTailanfs, they were no longer to be retrained from plundering, notwith- Ilaiiding the commodore, and the red of his officers, took every poffible means in their power to prevent, and put a Hop to it. The confe<]uence of this breach of order was, that in two hours the principal part of them were fo drunk as to be utterly incapable of fcrvice, and the com- modore w.s under the neccflity of ordering the town to be tired, while he was able to coUea fifty fober * One of tbcin was (he wclI-knowD caprain, ot colonel, Kirkby, Kho bchavril on ibis feivicc with [he gicatcU gallantry, alitiough, la ic acxi reign, he Was ILoi for Oiwatitiie. DolizodbvCoOglc sSl LIVES AMD CHAKACTZXB OF men to cover his retreat. Thus were the officers and mcndcpfivedof the pecuniary reward their bravery, fpirit, and adivity fo jtillly defervM, and which the latter after- wards forfeited merely by their imprudence. The lofs to the enemy was, never thelcfs, equally confe- (jucntial, and mult have been very confiderable, as it was confidently reported, that four mules, loaded wiih gold and filver, had arrived in the town only two days prior to the attack, being part of the plunder the Buccaneers had juft before acquired at Carthagcna, As for the captors, thev gained no other boo'y than a few ne- groes, and tome inconfiderabic articles of merchandize jc^cely worth mentioning. The failors being rcimbirked vithout the fmallelt moleftation on the part of the enemy, the commodore proceeded to fea in fearch of vice-admirat Neville, whom he joined on the following day. It was now refolved that the whole fquadron Ihould make the beft of its way for the Havannah, for which they accordingly (leered i but which Mr, Mees unfortunately lived not to reach; dying at fea on the 17th of July 1697, of fome difordcr contracted from theuhwholcfomenefsof the climate, and moft probably too much encreafed by his late difappointmcnt, and the chagrin he felt in confequence of it. Few men, whofe fervicc had been fo fhort, had been favoured with fo many opportunities of didinguifhtng themfelves ; and no man had ever more eagerly Jeized or irnproved them. His nautical abilities, as well as bis perfonal bravery, were ever hcM in the higheft ellimation, and failed not to procure him the molt confequcntial commands. In his laft, in whicl; alone be was unfortu- nate, he had, at lead, the confolation of having his ill fuccefs pitied; and died as generally lamented as he had, when living, been univerfally beloved. PRICE, John, — was appointed commander of the Sapphire hired frigate of war, of thirty guns. On the 30th of July 1689, he was employed, inconjuniUon with captain Whetftonc, of the Europa, to convoy the vidlual- lers, dedined for the fupport of the army, in Ireland, under the command of the duke of Schombcrg. In this fervicc he continued, during the remainder of that year, and alfo jn that which cofued^ rendering himfclf much diftin. DiQilizcdDyGoOgle KAVAL officers of CXBAT BKITAm. 283 diftinguifhcd for his a£livity and entcrpriling fpirit, and erievoufly impeding the caufe Qf the enemy by the num- ber of important captures he had made from (hem. In 1691 he was removed into the Smyrna Merchant, bjit [tUi continued to be employed on the fame ftation ^ and, la 1693, was promoted to the AiTurance of forty. two guns. This ftijp was put under the orders of the fuperimendant of tranfports, and ftaiioncd in the German Ocean, between Harwich and other places or ports of embarkation, and Oilend. He was, in the following autumn, removed to the Ctrnturion; in which fhip he had confiderable fuccefs againfl the enemy's fmail privateers, having captured fe- veral of inferior note. On the 24th of February 1694, he had the good fortime to make prize of the largell of four privateers, belonging to Dunkirk, who refolutely refolved to attack and board him; this the enemy were fully able to have accumplifhed, had they poIfclTed fpirit and gallantry equal to that of captain Price, as they carried upwards of fix hundred men, and his compliment was only two hundred. He continued to command the fame fliip many years, as we find him, in the year 1698, cap7 tain of her in the Mediterranean. He remained, we b&- lieve, in commilflon during the reil of king William's rtign. Not long after the acceflionof queen Anne, {hat is to fay, in the latter end of the year 1703, he was promoted to the command of the Somcrfct of eighty guns ; in this fllip he was prcfent, in 1704, at every operation during that inlcre{line year, in which the battle off Malaga is to be panicularly remembered. He led the van of the Englifh fleet, and is to be noticed as having fuf- fcred more than any other commander of hisdivifion, having had thirty-one men killed, and lixty-two wounded. A note relative to him occurs in Lediavd's Naval Hittoiy, which is too fmgular to be pmitted, although, in point of chronological accuracy, it ought to have been taken notice of fomewhat before this time. " Tlie fleet, on the Sth of May, fell in with fix French (hips of war, off Cape Palos, a little to the ealtward of Carthagena, which were chaced, by fignal from the admi- ral, by two Ihips of eighty guns, four of feventy, one of fifty, and one of forty ; aiD<9ig theJc were the Somerfet, com- . "Diailiz.dbvGoOglc 984 LIVES AND CHAVACTERS OV ' commanded by captain Price, and the Grafton, by (ir Andrew Lealce. In the courle of the chace three or the {hips had conlidcrably neared the enemy ; but two of them (the forty-gun (hip, and the Berwick, of fcventy) fhort- ened fail, as thinking it too hazardous to engage the enemy on fuch unequal terms. The hcadmoft, which was the Tyger of fifty guns, was, confequentty, obliged to put about and {land from the enemy." Tothiserrorio judg- ment was added a fecond, which is related by Lediard aj txtrafled from the Complete Hiftory of Europe*. Captain Price continued to hold the fame command many years, and we find him, in 1706, fent to Lifbon as com- modore of a fquadront, fent thither to cfcort an outward- bound fleet. His force confided of four third and two fourth rates, Englifh, together with fix Duich fhips of the line. Having taken on board, at Lifbon, major- general 'Stanhope, the queen's envoy to king Charles the Third, colonel Richards, with two Engliih regiments, and fcvcral companies of Spanifh deferters, he proceeded to Gibraltar in order to join fir John Leake, who was, at that time, commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. He was, con- fequenily, prcfentatthe relief of Barcelona, togetherwith the capture of Carthagena, AUcant, and the illands of Ivica and Majorca. During this fervicc a circumtlance occurred too fingo- lar to be omitted ; the carl of Peterborough, to whom, although no navat oflficer, a commiffion had been formerly granted of commander-in-chief of the fleet in the Medi- Grafion, leaving o? cbace, made a fignal to the njnains 10 come oB ^ard him j and, accordingly, our headmoft flripi ne»r the etMmy were likewire obliged to do iheiame. But opiua Price, in theSomerfct, n hoar, kejit oa chacinD; only in piffing by the Grtfton, ^e called to iir Andrew, ailing biro ihe retfon why he left off chice fo near ihe enemy, having a long day before them ? to which )ie replied, if he would come on board he (honld know hii reafonii which Price refufed, bcins an elder officer. Thit made it an unpar- donable prefunipiiDii in (ir Andrew, to mike my figntl. Bui Price feeing ihey were alt brought to, and would not follow ttim, could not kelp doing ihe like.'' + " He Tailed from SpiiheaJ, with only five ftiips of war, 00 the «5tl» pi f ebiuary ; the remiioder joined bim at Lifbon," ^Lpid'iAdd. toQ. A. 1707. ■ tcrrancan. L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: KAVAt OTf ICBKS Of CKBAT 8RITAIW. aSj «erranean, jointly with fir C. Shovel, now thought proper to put that comminioD in force, by tioilling the unioo flag at the main -top-malt hrad of the Somerfet, and afTumiog X conimaiMl, forwhich neither nature dcfigned, nor hi* education fitted him, and which he Toon afterwards had the prudence to quit. At the attack of Alicant this 0iip was one of thofe fent in, under lir G. Byng, to cannonade that city. When fir Joh/i Leake returned to England with part of the fleet, in the month of Odober foilow- iug, captain Price was left, under fir G. Byng, for the purp.ofc of proiedling commerce; and, if necefTary, co- operating with the army in Spain during the cnfuing winter. It is almod needlefs to M of a man, whom we have, on no occafion whatever, Teen ading otherwife than with the &ri£lc{l atientioRto his duty, that he conti- nued to render every fer^'ice, diligence united with zeal and activity, could fuggcl), or enable him-to perform. la the month of April he had ihe good fortune to maiee prize of two valuable French Iliips, bound from Marfeilles to Gninea : and the inactivity of the count De Thouloufe, who perrilled in keeping bis Ihipsconfined to the harbour of Touloo, prevented his atchieving any more confiderable exploit. In the following fummer fir C. Shovel arrived from England aod aHiuncd the chief comioaud. Wilb him he returned In the following winter, and furtunatoly without iharing his unhappy fate. After this efcape h« does not appear to have again gone to fea ; but, in reward of his long, faithful, and diligent fervices, had a penfion of 182I. los. a ye:ir, fettled on him fof life; and, cer- tainly, the lixiiflef): national ceconomift cannot think that proviiion either.to have been exorbitant or ill-delerved. He did not long enjoy il, dying on the i ft of April 1769. RAINS, Thomas, — was, on the loth of May 1689, ' made commander of the Coronation hired Ihip of war. Nothing farther is known of him than that be afiorwardr went into the fervice*of the Eaft India company, ami) died in India on the 5th of May 1702. ' NolwiihAanding which he flill reiatned ]]ii nnk in rbc nivy. He commanded fame fliip of itie line aflci the Coioojition, but uc liave noi been able 10 difcovci iu name. Diailiz.dbvGoOglc 086 tlVES AN'D CHAHACTEIIS or REYNOLDS, Robert,— was appointed fecond Itetitf- oant of the Plymouth on the 23d ot April 1677 ; and, on the lathof Auguft 1678, was promoted, by fir John Nar- boTOUgh, to be firil lieutenant of the fatne (hip. He is not known to have received any commilTion after this time til] the loth of April 1689, when he was appointed commander of the James galiey. We beliuve him to have afterwards comtnandeJ a fliip of the line ; but have not been able to colledi any farther particulars rela- tive to him, or to afcertain the time of his death. Wc know him to have been alive, and unemployed, in 1699. ROACH, Jeremiah, — was appointed lieutenant of the Antelope as early as the year 1665 ; but for fome reafon, Bot to be invcfligated by us, does not appear to have been agun commiHioned till after the revolution, when he was, on the 4lh of April 1689, appointed commander of the Charles galley; and", in the month of Augiifl following, was appointed, by commodore Rooke, to be commander of a fquadron of fmail velFels, left to co-operate with the army under the duke of Schomberg, and keep open the communication, as well as facilitate the palFage of fup- plies between England and Ireland. He died on the 6th of June 1690*. * Id the iddrcft, rclitive (o the mirmanigement of ihe navy, pre- c iD of March 1707-8, the rollowing mention ii made of a capiain Koich. Ween-, tetiain no doubt but that thii gentleman died at ihe limc we hive flateil i Devenhelefi, «i we cannot find any ccriain proof of any oibct grnlleman, of ihii aame, having held a naval command, vtt have thought it iniunibtnt on ui to infert ii here. " The WaElhimflovr ^lley, Peter Roberti miller, arrived from Birbadocs about the fame time (tbe year 1705] though he had feverai of hii men imprelled at. Barbkdocl, and onhf nine men ard Iwo buvs left, with himfrif, on "board : yet captain Roach, of the Fox, impreffed threrof hit bcft mVn, hii boalfwain being one, although the maflrr lold him hov weak he. W} and ibtt be bod but one anchor on board. Capiain Roach toll)- him, if be waa (aocf, he would tike him and all his fhipi cotDpmf •hoard, ind whip him at the Jcen. Captain Roach feni him ifaiee, Itiliim, vho eould.fpok no Eiiglifh; and ihey, the next nlght,'m ■ fkotm, i»a iway wiib ibe Ibip'i hoat, which wa.i flaved : sml-dw ftip herfeif na alhote; md To coniinued, about ihfrtecn day^,' 10. hcj-fja- iMgc of 4 or 500 1. beridei Ktcat prrjuilice to ibe men-banl's g6od(V Upon which Kcouttt ihe miner protrdcd at I'tymouib. The pfotef- ntiw wa delivered to ifacii lordlhiji't ud Iiid'bcfo'Cihe huure." ' ROBINSON, _ ,i,z<,i:,., Google HAVAL OFTICEtS OV GREAT SXITAIN. 387 ROBINSON, Henry.— The firft information we have of blm is, his having been appointed commander of the Sampfon hired (hip of war on the 17th of June 1689. He was, ill the latter end of the year 1690, promoted to a more confequentia! command; and, in the year 1693, commanded the Hope, of fevejily guns, one of the (hips b. longing to the main fleet. In this command he con- tinued till the i6th of April 1695, when he had the mif- fortune to fall in, fingly, with five French fhips of war. He rcfolutely engaged them, notwithf^anding the inequa- lity of lorfc, from five o'clock in the evening until twelve at night; when, having had eighty men killed and wound- ed, and the Ihip being alfo very much difabled in her mails and rigging, captain Robinfon was obliged to fur- lender, and was carried into France. Immediately after he was exchanged, he was appointed commander of the Hampton Court, a Ihip of the fame force with that in which he had been taken. He continued in the fame Ration, attached always to the main fleet, till the peace of Ryfwic took place. After which he does not appear to have held any command. He died on the nth of July 1701. ROOPE, Anthony, — is known only as having been appointed commander of the Charles firelhip on the 19th of November 16S9. He died on the 25th of June ■692. SINGOCK, Robert, — is one of thofc chara^ers who, in point of inirinfic merit, ftandS equally well intilled to the gratitude of a nation with thofc greater, and belter- Icnown perfonages, whofe advantages of education and birth, which firft brought them forward intojiublic notice, being diligently improved by repeated ads of gallantry, has, m a variety of inftanecs, ratfed them, very dcferveJly indeed, to the higheft pinnacle of popular favour. None of thcfe advantages were poflcfled by Mr. Sincock. He was born of very humble, honeft parents, .who fent hint to fea, early in life, as the bcft means they poifcfled of making any provifion for htm : after hav^ ing continued many years in the fervice of the merchants, and defervedly attained the character of a very dili- gent, honeft man, he entered into the royal navy, and was, after fome time, appointed boatfwaln of the Nnn- fixh. D,a,l,;t!dbvG00glc aBS tlTtS AND CtfAKACTERSOF fuch. This prommion, humble as it was, aided' by his own galUnUy, laid the foundation of his fo-meritcdly attaining that rank he afterwards reache4. The Non- itich, mounting thirty-frx guns, was commanded by captain Roomc Coyle ; and being Dationcd as a ciui{ing fliip off Guernfcy, and froso thence up the Channel, in the month of March 1,689, fell in with two French fliips of war off" that iiland, one of them mourning thirty guns, the other fixteen, and fix patteraroes, having under iheir con- voy about twenty fmatl merchant- Oil ps bound for New7 foundland. Captain Roome Coyle * immediately engaged them, but was unfortunately killed fuon after 'the a^io^ commenced, together with the mafter. To add, if pof— iible, to the misfortune, the Nonfuch had, at that time, no lieutenant on board, fo that the command, of courfe, devolved upon Mr. Sincock, who continued the aBlan, with the utmo'^ fpiritand bell conduct, upwards of three hours, when both the French Ihips Itiuckt. Mr. Sii>- ■ cock was, in coniequencc of ihis brave and exemplary conduct, c^cially proQiqted, on the 27th of June, to the command of the Noufuchj the very fliip he had fo bravely defended. From this time he was progreffively advanced in com- mand, fo thf t, in 1 693, he wu captain of the Tyger Piizq, of forty-tight guns, one of the Spanifh convoy ient out in that year, in company with the unfortunate Smyrna fleet and lir G. Kooke's fijuadton. We have not been able to difcover in what particular fervice hcwas employed during the year 1694. In 1695 we find him commodore of tbjE Turkey convoy ; and, in the month of March 1696, ap- pointed to cifinmaiid the Berwick of feventy guns ^. Hp w^ * See hii liFc, vol. i. p. 175. t " Flymouih, June 9. YeQeiday filled ttcir mijeftie* fiiip ihe Nonfuch, Robert Sincock camnuiulcr, wiih bii two prue* to the MRwird." Qai. 8^61. _ , t Anuing the Shovel papers h the following ociei to ciptaio Sin- cock, dated April the ad, 1696. -■( You are hereby leqoiied iLct diteflei] lo receive, on board hi* majeflyV Qnp under your comniaiid, captain John Leader, late con\> jnaodcr o( bi* inaiclly'i Oiip the Chatham, aod bear him *i part of ibe fhip't company till farther ordcti, liDr whicb ibii Olall be your warraiii. " c. s. ** Captain R- Eincock commuider of hii iwjc[!y't Qiip the Berwick.*^ Wo L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc NAVAL 0PPIC1K9 or GKIAT BKITAIH. 289 was one of the captains fent, during this month, under commodore Wyvii), to block up the ports of Dunkirk and Calais. On his return from this fervice he joined the grand l]eet, with which he continued during this and tlie following year, till hoflilities were happily clofed bj' the peace at Ryfwic. It is not pofitively known whcthejf he ever had any command afto-i- this time. His death) indeed, which hagpened on the 12th of OSober 1702, prevented his having any fhare in the war, which tOcAs: place immediately ^ter the acceflion of queen Anne, it IB needlefs to expatiate on the charadter of a man who ' owed his exaltation merely to his own tnerit. TICHBORN, William, — was appointed com- mander of the Lively Prize ia the year 1691. He was- remoYed into the Crown Prixc ; in which vefiel he waS' unfortunately loft*bn the 9th of February 1691-2. 'J'OWNSEND, Bryant,— was appointed captain of the Swift Prize on the 7th of Augud 10S9, and died on the 14th (^January 1690-1. WARD, James, — was, appointed lieutenant of the Hoyat Prince, and afterwards of the Golden Phanix, in the y^ar 1665, being foon after the commencement of the firft Dutch war. He retired, after this, for many years from the Service, which he did not return to tillfometimr afier the accefTion of king William. On the 17th- of December 1 689, he was made commander of the Fa1cc»i. He was afterwards captain of the Dunkirk, «ne of th« Wehavernferted rhefortgotngucontunin^i piece of infotmalioa which ma^ probably be curioui, and enlertaimng 10 Tucb ai are unac- Sainied with the ruleiandrcgulaiiootof the Fi^vy. In like manner, ai ^ journal oraf(ireignpHTareer,cipiiired fay an £ng!i(b frigaie, nfaril Itrlicflill prefervcd at tbe admiralty, on aceounc of ihe faltawiiig vljimfiMl minute in ii.—N.B. rirjfr/LiiUTBNANi tuuiluirJ tAu liey/er Jluping at Ut aalck. * The followine atcouo! of ihii accident is given in a letter from Plymouth, dated Febnianr ihe i6ih. " Oo the 7th inOani, captaiol Tiehbourae, in the Crown Prize, came 10 tn anchor, in very bad Mtber, off Dartntouih, and the itext momiai Grcd* goo'for nclp; .. -L_ r__ ._■__ _^_^. v:_ L ^ ij _^- -^ L^_ -Tit -L- -:J- _P WMtbl tmth ig very high, none coold get to him Iill the tide of flooH came, when the captain had cut hil cable aid towardi the (l«rt. Oa the 9th inRant the Ifaip wu driven on fluire and vtai to piece) : ihe'cjpnin and about twenty of bit nten were dfowDcd, the icdlbeti^ l«vtd." V Thomas, — vas appointed comtnaader of -the John of Dublin, a fircfhip, on the 28th of May 1 689. In die year 1693, he commanded the Grafton, of feventy guns, one of the fliips belonging to the main fleet. In the yeai' 1695, he was removed into the Windfor, a fliip of fixty guns, juft launched, which was employed, during that and the following year, under the admirals Benbow and Shovel, in the defultory attacks made on the French ports. In 1697 he was commodore of a fquadron, from Cadiz, confifting of ftxtccn Englifh and Dutch (hips of war, having under his convoy a fleet of merchant- fliips bound from thence, with which he fafely anived, at Deal, on the 29th of October. He was foon afterwards ap- pointed to the Harwich,' and fent to Madagafcar com- jnander-in-chief of a fmall fquadron, and commiflioncr to treat with a number of pirates who had formed a kind DiailizodbyGoO^IC HAVAL OFP»CERS^FGtSAT BJITAIN. ^93; Oiem, lie refolvcd to fail for Petit Guavas and Leogaiu. The belter to eiifure his fuccefs againft the enemy, ho divided his fijiiadron and detached captain Vincent, witi^ one part, to enter lire harbour from the foiithward; whjl* hehimfc]f,wiihtherumainder,lhouldUaiidinfromihewe{l- vrard. He was ioduced to adopt this meafiire from the failure of vice-admiral Benbow's attacl^ on the fame place ; as when that commander entered on pne fide, ihc enemy made their efcape on the other. Oif the firll ap- pearance of attack, three privateers', which were laying there, endeavoured, in vain, to put to fea- The (wq laigeil being driven afhore, and burnt, the third takeo. The otlier divifion was equally fucccfsful, afwill be here- after feen in (he life of captain Vincent. This expedi- tion, trivial as it may appear, fruflrated a buccanccrinjE 9ttact> the enemy then meditated on the north fide of Jamaica; which, although it mi^ht have done little to> wards the couqueftof thecolonyitfelf, oiigtit have ruino^ a multitude of private individuals- He does not appear ta bane uiHiertaken any thing of jnoment after this time, nor ccoUd it be expected that fi^ ftould, as he received orders, foon after his return intt) ijiort, to keep the fquadion collei^ed againft the arrival of- vice-adiniral Graydon from Europe, he having been fem out to take upon him the chief command.. ThisofBccf arrived at Jamaicapn thejthof Jiuie^ and t)ie fub&quen} events which took place have been already taken notice i^ in his lifet. Alilioiigh the pcopie-were in general ^nticl) irritated at the difappointment their hc^s of fqcccif experienced on this occafion, and threw much unmerited odiuoi on Mr. Graydon, the noil clamorous of them_hat| difcretion and juftice enough . j be fllefitas to Mr. WhetT ftone. He remrned to £ur<^e with Mr.. Graydon, ani| arrived fafely iu the Downs on the 22d of O£tober. i>9 highly did prince George approve of captain Whetftone's condu£l during his laft command, that, in the montlt d January fullowing, he advanced Kim to be K^r-adroiral of the blue, as a permanent rank. This promotion being rather contrary to the general rules of the fetvice, gave ic or twelve, and Mtf of ua, T3 OWcJl L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ic )94 LIVES AND CHAKACTBlia OF much dcfervcd umbrage to fir George Rooke, as ■will ba ften in the life of fir James Wiftiart. Neverthelefs, although the propriety of the appointment may be, in n great mcafiire, impeached, the aulcward apology of prince George, for having made it, and done a manifcft aft of Jnjuftice, is, perhaps, one of the mod honoorable tcfti- moniesthatcoulbcbornetothe condu£lof Mr. Whetftone, In the month of March 1703-4., he was appointed to cotnmand a fhialt fqwadron, in the Channel, left for th6 protection of the coaft, during the abfence of the main fleet, under fir George Rooke : but no occurrence toofe place that is worth commemoraline here. On ihe tem-t porary retirement of fir James Wiftiart, Mr. Whttftonfl was advanced, on the i8th of January 1704-5, to be rear- admiral of the white On the 22a uf February he re-. ceiVed the honour of knighthood, and was appointed com? mander- In -chief in the Weft Indies, jn confecjucnce of which he hoifted his flag on board the Montague, at Spit- head, on the a4th- 1 he fquadron equipped, in order f accompany hitti, conlifted of five Ihips of the line anil twQ frigates I with this force, having a fleet of merchant-fhipa undcF his protedtion, he failed about the middle of March j imd, without having experienced any finifter accident, ar> rived at Jamaica on the 1 7th of May, with two fmall veflcU fce had taken during his patTage. The utmoft expediilon being ufed in refitting the fhips, Mr. Whetftone failc but cannot be Cud, among avili zed nations, properly to command applaufe. The rear>admiral, after this fuccefs, flood to the eaft- ward. But the coall beins alarmed, and the encmjr every where upon their guard, he was conftrained to fernm ta Jamaica without having cffe&td any other fcrvice than that of deflroying a large privateer oiFthe river Grande. He, however, took the precaution to leave three of hifl beft failing (hips tocruifefor twenty days off Aninda, in' the windward pafTage : but this mcafure alTo IaU«d of fuccefi. ' Sir William put to fca a^in the i6th of Auguft, in- tending to cruiie in his M llation ; but on the t9th ta* countered a dreadful ftorra which forced him to return into port, his (hips having fuflaiaed confidtfrable daqiag* jn their malls and rigging. The hunicsuie feafoD now Approaching, it was deemed prudent the fquadrcMi (houM continue in port during that dangerous period. Thift Hate of inadlivity was afterwards proloneed by the mifer- able want of naval tlorcs, and a difmal accident which befet the Suffolk, the fliip on board which the admiral had ibifted his flag. Owing to fame caielelTneTi or n^ed* which never was explained, the after powder-room blew up, and confequently deftroycd the quarter deck, killii^ ' thirty of the people, and fcorching feventy more fo dcout fiilly that the major pan of them died : it was, indeed, almoft next to a miracle, that the fhip itfelf wai not to- tally dcftrfyed. This misfortune being repaired, and the rai^preffing wants of the fquadron in fome meafure fupplied, the rear* admiral once more got out to fea in the month of March. His intffltion was ut (tretch over to Czrthagena, in otder again to make the attempt of inducing the governor of that city to declare in uvour of king Charles. Tht fame caufe which, on every experiment of this nature, had caufed its failure was, in all prd>ability, equally prejudi- cial in the prefent inftance. He was difappointed in hit - endeavour to win him over by entreaty; and, as he tMim- manded too flender a force to flatter himfelf with tha hwes of conqucfl, To was be compelled, as all his prede- -caHw* had been before him, to return to Jamaica, with, out havings is the fiaallcft degiee, fulfilled tlj* objed of ' luB cniile. T 4 Campbell L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 196: t,I7ES JkHO CHAVACTSSS or Csmpbell very properly remarks that noiluBg afpeam in any account of this tranfa<5lioii, whicl^ can, in ihB leift degree, attach the finalleii odium to fir Wiliiam, «jther oq the ground of neglefi, or any other Ipeciei of vifcoiidoCl. Early in the month of June, having icceiveit inforniation that forae French ihips were laying at^etii Ouavas, he put to Tea with three fhips oi the line,'two frigates, and a iireihip, in the double hopes of ftirprifipg them, aad intercepting Du Cafle before he was reinfMC- «)> as he waa then in hourly hope of being joined by the count D'Iberville with a fquadron, which would render hiiti truly fomidable *, and put all the Britini potlefliofiSt in that part of the world, to the utmoU hazard. In both tbefe meritorious atteniptg the rear-admiral was unfortu- aat^y difappointcd. Contrary winds, and a ftrong lee current, compelled him to put back ; and he foon after- ivards had the morti6cation of learning, that the jun^ioa above-mentioned had adually taken place. ' To balance, in Tome meafure, this liroke of ill-fortunci fir William was joined, on the a5th of July, by commo- dore Kerr, from England, with Hx Ihips of the line, four frigates, and a firelhip. A council of war was immedi- ttely held ; and in that it was decided to renew, once niore, the attempt on Carthagena. The two commandeiB failed on the 8th of Augull, and reached the fcene of intended V^tion nfter a pallage of ten days. A flag of truce waa immediately fcrit with a letter to the governor, inviting him to fubmit and declare in favour of king Charles. Ho «t firil appeared to hefitaie, on bci/ig informed of the late iTuccelTcs of the allitd powers in Spain. But the hope Caufedby this appearance of hklf-minded inclination to |Kx:ede to the admiral's propofal was of (hort duration ; for, after htving two or three evaiive anfwers 10 the tnclTagcs fent him, when at laft prefTed fairly to declare his inten- tions, be peremptorily replied, " He knew no ibvereigD but king Philip, and him only would he obey." ThcM were at that time fourteen galleons, unrigged, laying in ihe harbour, but clofe under the walls of the city ; and the admiral very fpiritedly piopofcd to attempt their ded ruction. The pilots, however, who were oe- * A»it«oitidtheiicaal^effixuenfluf(afiheln«. .aoffiuilly L;,u,i,;.du,Goo^Ii: HAVA.l OPnCEKS OF OlEAT BRITAIN. 397 ceEIkrily confaUed, unanimoully declafcd it would be im- potDblc to force a pafTage into the harbour, unlets B>x:a. cbica cafUe, aod tbe other forts uhich defended the ca* trance were firft talcen, as well on account of the narrow- ncfs of the paSagf, which was entirely commanded by their guns, as of the (hoal water, which rendered it ex- tremely doubtful to them, whether fhips of the third or even fourth rale could work in ', were they even unop- pofed. Under thefe difcouraging circumftauces this attempt was again obliged to be given up ; and nothing now re- mained for fir William but to make the bcft ot his way lo Jamaica, and prepare accordingly to convoy the mer- cluot-lhips to Englandt, with fuch fhips as were in the worll. condition fojr fervice, leaving the command of the remainder with commodore Ktrr. He accordingly failed the latter end of October, and arrived fafely at Plymouth 00 the twenty-third of E)eccmber, with the Suffolk, Bri- flol, Referve, and Vulcan firelhip. Sir William's next command was, that of a fmaU fijuadmn intended to watch the count De Forbin, who was theo laying in Dunkirk. He received this appoint- ment, as fucceifor to fir Edward Whitakcr, the latter end of May, But, uotwiih (landing his vigilance, which has never been impeached, even by the mod clamorous, the French commander got out to fea foon after. In the month of June the rear-adrairal, who bad hoifted his flag on board the Dreadnought, was ordered to convoy the Archangel fleet as far as the ides of Shetland. This pre- caution was taken in confequence of Korbin's being at fea, and in order to fatisfy the RufTIa company of the at- teation of government to their prote£tiDn, as' the efcort was ollierwifc only to have confifled of one ihip of fifty " AQual experiment, in the ynr 17401 proved ibii opinioo un* i We mud not, however, forget 10 reioark, that, although the main objeEt of thii cxpcdiiion mifciniui ihcouehouc, ihefliips, under fir WILHam's CDnimanii were, » repariie cruifers, fingularr^ tQivt zai (cmirkably ruccefirul, having ciplured a num^r oT priira, and in pini'Tular [wu very rich Spaaifh Ihipi, which had on board tvo kondred tho«bod piccu of eight, aii4 > vciy confideraU* ^uuiliiy of Vkluablc gpodi. guns. DiailizodbvGoOglc 398 LIVES AND CHARACTERS OP Spni, and two fnzatcs, under the cammand of captarn Hadorfet- lllirc, 01 ei^ty guo^ one of the Ihips belonging to fir G. Rooke's divilion in the main £eet. . In the month of March 1696-7, Hill continuing in the £uiie Ihip, he was appointed to command a fmall i^uadron employeo In the north fca, prlnciyalJy in iho efcortof the tra^ to, aud from Holland. The peace of Ryfwic taking place in » £:w monjhs after this time he had a temporary rstitemant &om the fervice, not appear^ to have agaii) Kceivcd any conuniHion till after tlie acceHion of queen ^nne, whon he was ma^e captain of the Eagle, of feventy gUfS) sad fent on Uieexpedition to Cadiz under fir Geo. Rooke. This great commandtr having, qbferved in him all the qualities necdTary to form a good ofiicer, as well , as a conftaat attention to render thofe virtue* confpicuous, conceived for hiijii the fliqogcll love and attachment, vtuch the worthycondud of thq latter proved not to have been, in the fmatlefl degree, mifplaced. When ihc fleet was gn its return to England, after the &ilure of the attempt on Cadiz, captain Wilhart was detached, \viih two other Ihips of the line, and fomc tranfpofts, to take in water in L^gos bay- This mea-, fuie happUy proved the means of iiiA procuring, intelligence of the arrival of the Spanilh galleons in the biubour of Vigo. Captain Hard^i of the Pembroke, having brA made this difcovery, iinmcdiatcily imparted it to captain Wilhart, who was the fenior olliccr of the detachment. He inHantly difpatchcd the Pembroke itfetfi being the beil Jailing Aiip, to carry this important information to the comioander-in-chict., The atiackr and the fucccfs which attended it, is well known. In the year 1703 he was taken by (ir O. Rooke, who. wasag^in appointed commander-in-chief, to be hij firfl Cfptain i but no eneoiy appearing in the Atlantic for the fleet to encounter, the plan of operations was chang<.d. The 4uter detach- menlunder fir Andrew Leake, The (hips under fir Jame^ although fu peri or in point of numbers, were much inferior in a^ual flrcne;th ; fo that although the enemy, when they ' firft felt in with each other, appeared very refolute, and *o haveafixedintention to come to action. But they foon after- wards hawled their wind, and having evidently Hie advan- tage, in point of failing, efleAed theirefcape. Sir James rejoined fir Geoige R^kC on the 1 8th of May. pleifed to prcviil wiib her majcRyia gnntin^ me my ieBiei jepola amd KUremutt. *' I «», with ill isi^nble duqr, " Royil fir, '* Your moR, &c, " G, RoOKB," Copied from the origiiH] MS. in the pofleffion of vicc>adiiunl Kinfffflill. ' , Oa the ((h of Februiry (bllowrng Ciprain WOnn rrreiyti ih« prinee'i comoiinion to be rear-adniiral of the blue, loJ boinedbtiflig onboard the SuSolk, it S]>it)icad; but, K tbekingof SpiiD> r^eS, ht tmtJDtied firft ciptaia to the adminl hi ibit eipe^iion. The LiulNZCOyCOOgli: -304 LIVES AND CHACACTIKS OF The other operaiion«.of the fleet, during the expeditiop of the year 1704, have been already given at foQlc length IB the life of fir George Rooke ; and as from the ftation he held it is impodible to difcriminate or difcover the fervicw of the rear-adcairal from thofc of the commander-in-chief, all that can be faid is, that thew be no farther commen- dation bellowed on his condti£t than that it merited, id the fulled fenfe, the cordial approbation of lir Geoige, tvhofc elleem for him rofe, if pollible, with the length of their acquaintance. When (he Hiips returned to England, fir James, on the removal of fir George from the chief command, laid down his commiHion, and retired for a time from the fervice. ^ We meet with nothing relatii-c to him after this time, till we find him, in fhe momh of November 1707, one of the admirals aflembled, /ith five other flag officers, under prince George, the lord high admiral, to examine the proceedings of the coiirt-manial, and irs decilion, on the trial of fir Thomas Hardy, as will be more fully re- lated hereafter, in the memoirs of that gentleman. On the aoth of June 1708, fir James was appointed one of the council to prince George, as lord high admiral ; but his royal highnefsdyiogon the 28[h of October following, that commiffion of courfe terminated. On the soth of Decem- ber t7io, after the great political convulfton, which 5'u(l before took place, had fubfided in Tome meafure, 6r atnes was made !^ lord of the admiralty ; and, on die 7di of February 1711-12, was appointed the commiitioner tO goto Katlai)d,as fuccelforlo fir David Mitchcl, to regu- late the marine quota, purfuant to the treatief between her majedy and the ftatet-general, for the fervice of the year 1712. The treaty of Utrecht having clofcd all hoftilities, little interelling information is to be expe3ed relative to him in the line of fervice. His feat at the board of ad- miralty he retained throi^h fe vera) com mi (lions ; and, in the mouth of December 17131 was advanced to be admi- ral of the white, and commander-in-chief in tfie Medi- terranean* On the acceffion of George the Flrft, the intereft of ihcfe locn, with whom he had ever lived in the flri^ft ttnnt of intintacy and friendship, began vifibly to decline; aai a complete chtoge taking place foon ajicrn-ards iti every DiQiiizcdDyGooglt; HAVAL OFFIpXU OP GREAT BRITAIN. 2°S every department of adminlflration, fir James was confe- quentl^ involved in it. On the 14th of Oflober a new coinmiflion was made out for cxcciiting the oIHce of lord high admiral. This was a, prelude to his final difmiflioa both from his civil cmploymtnl and from the iervice; itt Charlci Wager being fent, in the month of January following, to fupcrcede him in his Mediterranean com- inand. After his return he lived totally in retirement till the time of his. death, which took place fome time in the yeari729", A more violent and fcandalouS proftf of the unwarrant- able rage of what is called party, is not, perhaps, any where ^o be met with than in the treatment of this gentleman.* Of the rnoft irreproachable manners as a man, as werf as exemplary condud as an officer, he became the objeflf of political perfecution, conftrufled on fuch grounds that it was imptMSble for him to obtain any rcdtets, or legal!)* . to complain of. The great charafler and confequence of fir George Rooke, together with the necc/Iiiies of' the ftate, which would not at thai time admit of the retire- ment of fo great a man in difguft, procured Jiim, in the firll ihltance, an afl of jufticc from his enemies, which, probably, was a violence to their ver^ natures. Too mild and unprefuming to force himfelf into political con- fcqucnce in his civil capacity, with the death of his friend and patron his fnterefl funk at once. Tohisownintrinfic worth was owing that countenance and employment he experienced during the latter part of queen Anne's reign j and, perhaps, no greater encomium can be bellowed on him, than to proclaim to the world the name of his great patron, except it is to add, that, even aftej the dc- ceafe of that patron, fir James continuad to be refpei^ed, honoured and irufted by able minillers and moderate men. WRIGHT, William,— was appoirited captain of the Nathaniel firefhip on the 29th of September 1689,. and died on the gth of November following, _ ■ In tcrawdminl Httdy', L\& of Nival Officer), fac i< faid t6 hive died on [he 3oih of May ij^Si ^"^ thii~-w« apprehtnil to b« a nifUke. ASHBY, . „,.,,,.,.,Cooglc 3<)6 LIVES AND CHARAcjTtltS OF 1690. ASHEY, j\rthiir, — is Juppejed, by fome, to have been the fon of Thomas AHiby, dij; of lrf>weftoffe, in the. county of.SufFolk, brother lo admiral fir John Afhby, of whom wc have already given fome account. This, how- ever, is far from being eftablifhed as a pofitive fadt. As . to what concerns him as an ofEccr we have nothing faN ■ fher to relate, than that he was appointed commander of the Mermaid on the iSth of June 1690, and died o;\ the joth of November 1691. ■- BANKS, Sir Jacob. — We have found nothing relative to this gentleman till he was appointed commander of the Cambridge on the 26th of Aiiguft 1 690. He did not long continue in this Ihllon, being in a fhort time after- wards fiiccceded by captain Foulks, and removed into another (liip. Nor is this to-be confidered as the fmalleft affront to his charafler, or reproach to his conduif}, it being exceedingly uniifual to continue To young an officer in the command of fuch a powerful a fliipi except as captain to a Jag, it being a third rate of feveniy guns. In 1 693 he was captain of the Carlifle of lixiy guns, one of the (hips belong- ing to the main fleet; and, in 1 696, of the Ruffel, of eighty' 'guns, employcil in ibe fame linC of fervice. The povJerty of events, which attended the operations of this branch of our naval defence, prf.oludes tis from having any thing memorable to relate during thefe vears of thofe officers who commanded fuch fhips as, (Iriflly fpeaking, compofcd it. Even the attack of the French ports, which- occafionally look place during this period, was committed to detachr ments \ and thefe were principally formed from the lighter fhips of the line. We do not, after the firiflcft enquiry Ve have been able to make, find this gentleman ever -no- ticed' as a naval Commander, ■after the peace at RyfwJC; He received the honour of knighthood from queen Anne, but on what particular occafion we are ignorant. He died on the 22dof December 1724., ■ - - BRIDGES, . „,.™:,.,C'oog[c MAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 307 BRIDGES, William,— was bppdinted captain of the' Swallow on the grfi of May 1690. tn 1693 he com- tnanded the Portland, of forty-eight amis, a (hip ftationed in the Downs for ihe prote£iion oT'inat pan of thecoad. In ihe following year beinb proinnted to llie Montague, in the month of Deceinberlie alliiled in the capture of a French, ftiip of war, of fifty-four giinj, called the Teme- raire. This fucccfs he did not long furvive, dying on the aift of January 1694.-5. BUCK, James, — was appointed fecond lieutenant of the Hampton Court on (he i2ih of November 1688: he was promoted to the command of (he Play Prize, of thirty guns, on the 26th of July 1690. He was foon after- wards removed into the Charles galley, a Ihip of fuperior force. In the month of June i6gi, he was fent, in company with captain James WiJhart, who then com- manded the Mary galley, to efcort a fleet of Englifti fhips to Elfinore. When on their return from thence with a convoy, on the 20th of July, they fell in with eight (hips, to which captain Buck immediately gave chace, while his companion continued with the metchani-fliips for their better prote£tioa. Abqut noon captain Buck got up with and found them to be four French privateers, with four EngltR) merchant-fhips, their prizes, which they had cap. ' tured two or three days before in company with a fqua- dron of fmall French fhips of war. Captain Buck retook ihe largell of their prizes, the Fygcr, which was a verv ftout fhip mountin? thirty-four guns, together with on't; of inferior note. He continued tochacethe reft for fome lime, but unfbrtimattly without cftft. With this fpirited afl he glorioiidy clofed his life, dying on the 9th of the following month. CHAMBERLAIN, Clifford,— was appointed com- niander of the Griffin firclhip on the l8lh of March 1 689, and died, on the 6th of November 1691, captain of the Forefight. ■ . CRAWLEY, 1*homas, — was appointed fecond lieu- tenant of the EHzabcth on the ift otOflober 1688. On the 7th of Fctiruary 1690, he was promoted tn the com- mand of the Richmond. In 169} he was made captain of the Reftrve, of forty-two guns, and fent to conVoy the outward-bonnd fleet to Newfoundland. His diligence aai ftrifl attention to eiery point of his profcilionat duty ' " ' ' . Us exciicit , L ,„.,,.,Cooglc 3^8 Lives. AKD CRAKACTEKS OV *;icited the notice, apd procured.him the paiionige of fit C. Shore!, He wis ftrOngly recommended by that great commander, to the commimDners of the admiraky, >s an officer mofl remarkably mfliduous, even in thofcminuiizof his duty which fome, though with the beft Intentions and mod eager zeal for the fervice, have difregarded". The pinicuiac circninflance which appears to have inierefled fir Cloudefley in liisfavour was, his having, at a very fhort notice, equipped for fei the Cambridge, 2 thiM rate, of eighty guns. Through this very- ftrong recommend a I ion captain Crawlty was, in the month of June 1695, promoted lo the temporary command of the Neptune, of ninety gnns ; . from which, in the month of Auguft folluwin'g, he re- turned to the, Cambridge. The admiral appears only to have contrived this as a mark of reipeQ to him, in pro-;. curing him the command of a fuperior (hip, while he himfelf found it neceffary to hoiH liis iiag on board the Cambridge, during captain Crawley's continuance In the Neptune. He remained in this Utip during the reft of the war, and was ftill retained in cnmmillion after the peace was figned, as it is believed, till the time of his deaih, although the jjarticuhr fhip is not known. He died on tlie 1 6th of P ebriiary 1 700- 1 . CONDON, Pavid, — was appointed fecond lieutenant of the Unicorn in 1672, and oi the Forefight in 1673. On the aSlh oPJuly 1678, he was promoted, by fir John Natboroiiglj, to be flrit lieutenant of the Portfmoutli. On the 4lh of March 1681-2, he was appointed to the fame ftation on board the Dragon; as he was alfb, on the i+th of April 1685, on board the Rofe'. Onthe 25th of May 1690, he was promoted to llie Command of the fame , fiiip : he was afterwards made captain of the Heart Ketch ; in which veiTel he was unfortunately killed on the gih of June 1692. We have diligently fearchedjbr fome authen- ■ tic particulars relative to this aiflion,'but without iiiccels. We know only,, that the (hip itfclf was taken ^t«r being very gallantly defended, for a confiderablc UmC, ' againft a very fuperior force. DAVIDSON, James, — was appointed captain of the Bonadventurc, hired (hip of war, of fifty guns, on the i8th of June 1690. He continued in this command nearly during the whole n'ar, and appears to have been principally I employed _ „,.,,,.,.,Cooglc VAVAL 0FPICF.R5 OF CREAT BltlTAi:!. 309 employed in convoying thoTe inferior fleets of mercliant- fliips which were not thought of fiifficicnt confequtncc to require a moie formidable protcflinn. In tbc month of April 1693, he efcorteda fmall fleet from Bilboa. In the rummer of the year 1696 he was fent to Iceland for the protcflion of the whale fiihery off Uiat coaft ; a fervice he ' not only eiFcAually performed, but had alfo ihe good for- tune to capture four French armed veflels, fern thither for the double purpofe of fifhing and privateering*. In the following year he was made captain of the Afllftance, and fent on the -fame fervice. During this expedition he capturvd a large French fiiip which had been fent to Ice- land, on the fame two-fold kind of fervice with thofc whid) were captured in the preceding year. He conti- nued to command the AfniEance, as it isifuppofed, during - the whole of king William's reign. After the acceffion of queen Anne no mention is made of him ; nor do we- know whether he continued in actual fervice. Jn the year 1704 he had a pcnfion fettled on him of 1231. Ss. 9d. pet, aon. which he enjoyed till the time of his death, which happened on the I2th of July I7©9. DEAN, Robert, — was appoinied commander of the Pearl on die ift of April 1090 : in 1693 he was madj captain of the Ruby, a fourth rate of forty-two guns, one of the fquadron fent, in the early part of that year,, to the WeUIndies^under fir Francis Wheeler. After bis return from thence he was promoted to the Sicrling Caftle of feventy guns, and cominucd in commiffion after the con- clufion of the war, even to the time of his death, which happened on the 6th ' of Jairoary J699, but in what particular fhip we have not been able to difcovef. * In a Qunurciipl note to a navy lift, in which we have found many InKrclling at wcllai luihenilc ahccdoifs, lie iifii^l 10 have been dirmiflcd from tlie Boiudvcnture in 1696, for breach of orders, &c. Wt (hjak il our duty, howe»cr, id declare (he charge refls on ihii K(liiTioi]t only, and inat we aie much inclined 10 difbelieve it, more elpecialJy ai we find him, fo imoitdiaiely aCicivudt, ippoinied 10 4 (hip fuperior ID ibat from which hu ii laid 10 have b;cn dirmiircd. We hnve ihoughi it neceflary to obfcrve on ihis monorandum, lei) having been fren by nihers, ourGlence Ihould be cuqitrued eiil^r ini« cafclcTs or wilful omilCoD. U3 PORRIL. JlQlH^cduyGOOglC 310 tlVES AND CHARACTERS 07 DORRIL, Robert, — was appointed commander of the St. Andrew, of ninety guns, on the 2oth of February 1690. He was captain of this fliip at the unfottunate aflion off Beachy Head, where he fer\cd as fecond to fir iRaSph Delaval who commanded the blue fqiiadron ; in which ftatiori he appears 10 have behaved with much be- coming fpirit. It is, therefore, very lingular we never find him holding any other command, nor meet with any mention made of him, ii) the fervice, after this time. No notice is taken even of the time of his death ; and were it not that we find his name inferted in an ofEcial lilt of the captains of the navy as alive in the year 1699, we fliould have fuppofed him to have died foon after t^e period above alluded to. EDWARDS, Richard, — was appointed fecond lieute. nant of the Plyiytouth on the 3d of September 1688 ; on the loth of March 1690, he was promoted to the com- mand of the Greenwich ; in 1693 he was captain of the Kent, of fevcnty guns, one of the ihips belonging to the main fleet. In 1695 he commanded the Chichefter of ■ "eighty guns, one of the (hips belonging to the fmall fmia- dton fent tinder the command of lord Berkeley and (ir Cloudefiey, to attack the fmallcr Fjench ports. In 1696 he removed into the Severn, of fifty guns. He continued in commiRion during the peace, which took place fcon after this time, but it is not known in what particular ihip. After the accefOon of queen Anne he was appointed to . the Berwick of feventy guns. This thip was one of the fleet fent, under the command of fir George Rooke, on "the expedition ^gainll Cadiz. On this occafion he afled as one of the fCeonds to rear-admiral Graydon ; and in the fiibfequent attack on Vigo, was flationed as one of the feconds to fir Stafford Fairbomc, who commanded the third divifion. . In the year 1703 he Hill continued in the Bcnvick, and failed for the Mediterranean, under lir C. Shove!, being flationed to lead the van of the Britiih on the liar-board ._ tack. On his return from the Mediterranean ni the fol- lowing autumn he quitted the command of (he Berwick. It is not known, into what (hip he removed, nor have «c been able to coUefl any thing farther relative to him till the . ,l,;<,i:..,C0_0grC KAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. J^I I the yeafj i_707, when wc find him commanding the Cum- Aiettlrtd of eighty guti's, and "appointed comrtidddrc of the 'Convoy- fent to efftrft the outwaTd-bound Lifbon flee». His force was by no means defpicabie, but thought per- JeAly competent to the defence of its charge, which, Iri ^011 of intrinfic vatM, was confiderablc; and, confidercd a national light, via, from the Quantity of horfes and "Ajres intended for the uffi'of the army in Spain, of ftitt much greater moment. The efcdrt condlltd -.of thie 'Gumberland and Devonfhire, ^f eighty guns each ^ ihe iHoyal Gait,' trf fcventy-fix ; and the Chtftcr and Ruby, of ■fiftyi The two Istter, indeed, could- only be called the ■convoy, as the remainder of the foyce, imdcr commodora -Edwards, was to return after feeing the fleet fafe filTy 'leagues to the weftward o\ Scilly. TIk French having, i»s it was believed at that time, no force atBrcll of fufficient confe(]Upnce to be dreaded, the precautions taken ^y ad- miniftration for the defence ot this great obje^ were thcught fully competent. Such, however, was the want of infcRmation at home, aided by the treacheiy and treafon af.'foiAe individuals, who gave accurate and conDant in- feraiftion to the enemy of the equipment, force and de- fttitttibn of this fquadron, that, on the loth of October, .bdag the very day after it (kilcd, it fell in With the com- itiacdifijuadronE of the count De Forbin, and M. Du <3uai Trouin, off itic Lizard. The commodore imme- diately took every meafurc prudince could fugged and gallantry fupport, both in the proteftion of his convoy «nfr> ing year, aod, confequenOyi was not tried for the lofa of hiE utip tilt the latier end of OAobcr 170S. The judg- inent of the caurt vateer> called the Entreprenani, bcIoi]ging~ to fircO, uH mounting forty-fix. Kuns. In 1^95 he was promoted t« the Newark, of eighty guns, ooc of the fqusdron fcOt under the command of lord Berkeley, and fir C. Shovel, to attack the French ports. He remained in the iimt fhip, we believe, difritig the whole of the war ; but duc> ing the peace which fucceeded, does not appear to ban been employed. In 1703 lie was appointed comminrin of the Kent. We find him detached, on the loih of May, with a fmall fi^uadrun, condltine of four Olios, t» recounoitre the port of Breft- In conlcquence of tnc iti> formation he cofledled while on this feivicc, particularly of all the French fhips having elcaped Out of Comjuet Tpad, and Camaiet bay, fir George Rookc, with the ^y (if the fleet at that time under his conmiand, failed far iJelleifle j but no profpeft of rendering any fcrvice appear- ing* u,Q,i,;.dD,Googlc KAVA.L OPFICtRS OF GKIAT ItlTAIH. 3I3 tug, «h1 t^p tiine of tbt cruife beins expired, the A»c ntirrned ioto ppn towwds the tnd of Jun? . In the fok- -4*Miig ntpoin (taptain Fairfax was ordered wU, undv rcw-MDitriil Dilkesj to atucjc a confidcrable fleet of mes* chant (hips, and their convoy, which were faid to bec<4^ IcAtd in CancaUe bay. Tm fquadron failed od the 32d, ■adjoii the afithi'Ot day-U^t, gat fight of the enesw, (hep faylag at anchor about a b«gue to the weftward of GraDr viUe. TyefMy-four of ibc enemy's Qups were taken uii 4etlioyed in the courfc of th«t dity, and fevcnteen cnQrct tMBiMr with the convoy; which confifted of tliree Qoc^ Aifrar, on the followiitg. Captain Fairfax appears to tuive emineiitly diflioguiflicd hipirdf during- thif enter- prize ; and is faid to have received a gold medal, purpofdr inuck on the occasion, to ^rpetniMe the memory of fo iigtutt a fcfvke, and very del'ervedly bellowed on the rear- •jmir^, sod thofe officers who had fortunately born a efufeicvous part in it. Alter this lime we meet with no information jelativt SD his hiding any commaod- On the 2otb of June 17081 he was appoioted one of the council to prtnea %MOTg6 of J^enowrk, then lord high admiral, an office jtie held till his highnelles death, on the zSth of Odlober fcllowirtg. From this time till hisdeath.^neventwhich Ittppcned on the 7th of Oiilober fj^j, he appears to have nttred altogether from public life. FOWLER, or FOULIS, Thomas,— is fuppofcd, ky fomc, to have been the fon of the cwtain Fowlii of whom we have given fomc account •. He was, on the Jlth of April 1690, appointed commander of the Vulture f^elhip. He coatinucd in this line of fervice fume time, . •od acquired conftderable credit at the biiile off La Hogiie, HI an attcn^I made by him to btirn the Royal Sun, lour* kilk's fhip; an aKompt bravaly and ^dicioufly made, Heritmg the higheit commendation, notwithltanding the that ol the enemy firing his fhip before it could take §fk&, tmfortuiiately rendered his great endeavour abor- at\-e. Soon after the return of the fleet into port he vras promoted to the commSnd of the Depiford, of fifty g<:ns, One of the ftips belonging to the main fleet. He was, in * Vol. I. p. M3. L,j„.™.,., Google 31+ IIVES AND CHARACTERS or the rear 1694., made commander of the Relloration, a -third Tate, of feventy guns. He continued if) CbtnmiffiOs •during the peace, and, as it is believed',' ti1) his death, which tcxA place on thed4th of July tjii^t being fooii «fter the I'cceflion of queen Anne. He then com^andel ^e Britannia^ . HAILES, John, — wag, on the ift of May 1A90, madi Comioander of the Half MoWi (ireiliip ; he waa fixm sfkf wards promQied tb a frigate of thirty-two guns, {railed ttie Virgin's Prize, This ihip' appears, to hn,ve been chiefly employed as a cruifsr in the Channel. Captaih Haiteswas uniortunately drowned, atKilifafe, on the 9th of December 1693, at the fame time with c*ptain Gillamy in whofe life w^ havi aiieady given an account of ritat melancholy accident. ■ * HAKLOW, ThontaB,— ♦.-as, on the -i?!*! of Nbrch 169c, N.S. appointed commander of the Smyrna M«r- chant. He was, not long afterwards, fvromotod (o -be captain of the Burford, of feventy giina, on? of the ffaipt liuonging to the grand fleet. In 1696 he Cotnmanded the Torny, of eighty guns, and led the van of the coiA^ Mander-in-chief's divinon. He continued in this fliip till the cDnclufion of the war; and being detacheir, in the month of Augwft 1697, -with a fmall fquadren', confining of the Torbay and Defofiftiirc, of eighty guns; iheReftoration, of feventy; the t)efiance, of fixtyi touTj and the Betty, a fmall frigate hired from the mer- chantE. He fell in with aFrench fquadion of fupcrior force, which he refolutely, and, in fome degree, fuccefH ' fiilly engaged : but tho enemy, after an aftlon of fome hours continuance,' finding themfclves incapable of gaif>- jng any advantage a^tnft fo determined a foe, prudenrlf declined any farther contefl, which their ftiperiority, i« Eiint of failing, foon put it out of the' power of the ngiifli to continue *. Thit- foeros is be tha fair and impartid * The following ii )h« iccounl, given by amlinrity, of ibii linM mnf«Qioi], whicb, tram i nuDibcrol concurceni circumQancM, Coo* •ficiwaidi made a very conEdciibte noih. i " On the 14th, SciUy bearing N. E. £48 milci diftutt, the Dc&' ■net being a-hcad, between fix and fcven in the 'morning, dcrciitl fcTcial ffaipi lo'windward, and made ihe Cgnal 10 give Dotierr where- _ ,l,z<,i:,.,G00glf HAVAL OFFICEKS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 31; impartial Hate of this aftJon; but although, candidlj judging at the prcfent diltarit period, wc cannot difcover the leaft criminality, or ground for reprchcnfion Jn captain Harlow's condufl; during thb preceding bufincfs, it it certain his reputation fufFcred much in the opinion of his cbtemporajiet, more particularly of ihofc who were mf featnen. The French fquadron wai commanded by Monfieur Pointi, whomwcTiave aiready had occafion to fpeak par- ticularly of in the life of admiral Neville. It had efccped almofl a myriad of encounters and dangers, and was re- turning to Europe laden with the pluniler of the Wefteril "world. The wealth he bore off, and the frequent hope and fuppofed chance of recapturing it bad tantalized both the Englilh and Dutch To, that repeated difappoiniment could obtain no fatitfaflion, ^ut that of venting itfelf in ' npoa captain HaHow wiib tbe other men of war made all the fail tiity could and plyed cd wiiidward, iuppoGne ibcy.inigbt be i{)e We(1 India Sbipi; buL ai ibc day came ua wc aifcoveTcd liiem 10 be great Ihlpi, and hv ibem bearing down [Otiratd) u> in a line. We pul oiiifcJrei in a reidiiicr> fer a nehl. About two Id the afteniom • the enemy btvugtil to, being live in (DDitibcr, OBC wilb » vhilc 6»f^ fwallow tail, at the maia lop-aiaA, and bore down nearer lo ut. About ihiee wc engaged, and ibc fighl cnnUDUcd'iiU'aboat fix in the cv'cnin^, wbea the CQCffiy tacked. Wc made all the fail we eaiiU after ihcm, but found ihey mucb oullailed ui ; and about ten at nigbt loft light of ihem. Tbe fificencb, about four in ibe nioraiog, ver^ ' clear wealbcr, ue again difcoiteted the enemy aboui four leiguei front U); w« followed tbe cbare, and continued ii at) nieht with ail the fail we could: on ibc iGib, in the morning, had (igbi of tbciti again, about 6ve miles from ui; whereupon ihcy let out ihcir rcefj, and fet iheir top-gallant faili; and, in • watch aocl ati Kalf, with • ItfSh gale, wherein we tried cjcrj way of failing, tbe^ gained fo niurh from ai ibat we law lio probabiliiy of coming up wiih ihcm ;.aiui Tome of our Clips being 1 gicacVay a-flcrn, and the weather ililct, we giTe over the cliacc. lo (he fifjht the Torbajr had one man killeif and five wounded; the Rcdoraiion fix killed and foutleen woanded; tbeUe- vonQiire eleven killed and cicvea wounded; Uic Defiance fiKteca woundrd; and the Beiiy orkc wounded. The eacmf'i rquadrrm waa compofed of one Ibip of abcul ninety, two of feveoty, one of Gxty, and one of fifiy gum." On the foregoing aflion Campbell (hrewdly remaiki, " On tlie . following day ihey, the French fquadron, entered ibc hiibour of Brett, hiving B] happily and ai fitaDgely cfcapcdavaiieiy gf danger) m anjr l^iiaJtoa ihil ever went to fca." a violcilC . „,.™.,.,Coogli: 3I<$ '(itTES^HD CHARACTERS or a violent aii^ unwarrantable clamour *. This was en- creafed, and with fome degree of induflry, by popular l^aken, wtiQfe fuppofed patriotifm had conferred on then), by long ufage, a right of faying with impunity whatever thcj plcaicd, and of fome others who had not the courage to avow'ths charge t they had the bafeocic aoonimptflly to advance The rtfult, however, of their united endeavours was, (hat captain Harlow ceafed to be employed any more dur- ing the tpign of Willjani the Third. The rage of po- pular jdisfavotir having, in fome meafure abated, he was, foob after the acceffion of queen Anne, ap- pointed tt> command the Grafton, of feventy guns, one of the (hips fent, under fir G. Rooke, in the year 1 702, <^ the expedition azainfl Cadiz. Nothing memorable can be expe^ed, relative to theiife of a fea-oflicer, in ah enter- prifc in which his department of the fervicc was not at all concerned. In the fubiequent attack on Vigo he was ftationed as one of the feconds to vice-admiral Hopfon who led the attack w^ith his detachment, on which, with- out wifhing to diminifh the merits-of thofc who followed and fuflain«i htni, the principal weight of the a£lion lay. Thus, happily and fuccefsfuily, captain Harlow clofed his naval lite. He continued at Vigo till the remainder of the fleet and prizes returned to England, with fir Clou- deflcy. Shovel, in the month of November 1 702; after which lime we do not believe he ever went to fca. On the 7th of February 1704-5, he was appointed « commiHioncr of the viflualling office, a Haiion in which he continued till the 13th of November 171 1. He isfaid to have been appointed maner-altendant at Deptford, but " A Dutch 'auihor qiuimly faid, " III luck had put on Icadea boot! to purfue the Fr«ioh." " ♦ Admirdcy Office, Sepitmbfr «i, 1697. Whereu the lordi commilKaneri of the idoiiriliy did receive a lexer by the pof), ligDcd A. B. which. coniaini rcvcrai ihingi leUiive to (he Ute aflion of captain Hailow, ihefe arc 10 give notice, that if the pciron who writ the f^ letter, will apply himiclf 10 one of the fecreiaiies of the ad- mirsltVi hii name fhtU cot be made known without hit own confeoi, foil he Ihatl likcwjfe be rcwardad and pieieired l>y their lofdBiipt," Gazelle, No. 3383. . DolnodbyGoOgle VATAL OFFICERS Of ORXAT UITAIM. yif in what year we have not been able to afcertai«. He died, in a very advanced age, in the year 1741. ■ HAWKlNS,Charles,— wasappointed.bykingjames, fccond lieutenant of the Se^gmore on the loth of May 1687. On the loih of March 1690, he was promoted to thecommafid of the Milford frigate. In the year 16912 he was promoted to the Advice; of forty-two guns, one of the /hips fent to the Weft Indies, in the following year, under the command of fir F. Wheeler. While on tnis fer- vice he had the fortune, callit on the prefent occafion good or ill, to acquire, in'an eminent degree, the notice and good (pinion of hiscommandingofGcer, who being, immediately on hia-returntoEurope, appointed commandcr-in-ehief of the fleet fent to the Mediterranean, procured the promo- tion of captain Hawkins to the SulTex, of fevenjy guns, ' the fliip on board which he intended to hoJil his fla^ 4 its melancholy fate w« have already had occafion to Telale in the life of fir Francis : fuffice it to fay, captatD. Hawkins was included in it, on the 19th of February 1691-4. ' HUBBARD, John, — has been unfortunately con- founded wifh the John Hubbard, of whom we have gi\-en a Illort account*. He was in all probability the (on of that gentlenvn. He was appointed fecond lieutenant of thff Forefight an the 13th 01 July 1688, and promoted to be firftlieutenant of the fame veffcl on the i6th of Auguft following. He was ftiade captain of the Bonadventurc, of forty-eight guns, on the i8th of June 1690, and conti- nued in the fame command fomc years ; during which he appears to have been principally employed in convoying the. fmaller fleets of merchant- Ihips. , In 1695 we find him commanding the Dorfetfhlre, of eighty guns, one of tile feconds to lord Berkeley in the defiihory attacks made by him, during that year, on the French pons. In 1696 he was captain of the Devonfliire, of fe'venty giins, onp of the leatOng Ihips of lir C^ Shovel's divifion iii the main fleet. We do not believe h'm to have born any commif- fion duiitig the reign of king William after the peace at Ryfwic ; but foon after the ooininenccment of the war with France, in 1702, he was appginted captain of the •Vol. I. p. 79. _ ,1,.™:,., Google JlS ClVte AND cMabActEks-of Eflex, of feTcnty giiriK, One of fir G. Rooke's fleet ; a itip of which he continued for a long lime cflmmandcr. In the following year he failed for the Mediterranean with 'fir C. Shovel; and, in 1704., eminently diftingiiilhcd hiinrelf, wider fir George Rookc, both in the attack of Gibraltar and the engagement with the French fleet off , Malaga. In the following year he was Inarfc captain of the Pan- ther, and returned to the Mediterranean^ under the com- mand of fir C. Shovel, with whom he continued to fervc during his expedition againfl Toulon. Having efcaped fliipwreck at the time his brave and ifnfortunatc admiral pcriflicd, he, foon after his arrival in England, was com- . niiffioned to the Elizabeth ; and returning to the Meditcr- rtnean ftation in the following year, was, in the month of July, detached, by fir John Leake, at that time com- iHander-in-chief there, with his own Iliip, the Elizabeth, three other Englilh (hips of war, and three Dutch, to cruife between Petifcola and Tortoza, in order to cover the attack then meditated upon thfc illaud of Sardinia.' We find him,, while thus employed, to have rendered'. himfelf remarkably corfpicuous, by his great diligence and atleniion to every thing which appeared, in any de- gree, likely to promote the caufe of the allies. By his fpirited co-operation with Itcu tenant-general Stanhope, he laid the firft foundation of that fuccefsful' expedition which took place, in the month of Auguft, againft Minorca ; and in this we feel it our duty to dwell ' longer on his merits, as he appears, in confequence of thiscondufl, to have attached lo himfelf a refpoofibility in cafe of ill-fuccefs, few wilh to encounter, except ureed by the moll fpirited motives of gallantry and zeal. We believe him to have, in great meafure, rctrrcd from the - fervice after he ouitted the command of the Elizabeth, Vfhich he ciid in the year 1709, On the 17th of March 1710, he was apTJointed fuperintendant at Plymouth, an office which, however, was abollfhedaTjhe condufion of the war ; after which he had a penfion fettled on him of 250!. a year. The time of his death we have not been able to inveftjgatc. ^ HUGHES, Gabrrel, — was appointed xommaDdcr of the GiiSin fireihip on the -.jih ot' Auguft 1690 : in the J-ear L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: Kl MAVAl'oVtlCEKS'.otleRtAT. Skii'aiM. 3*9 yeari^a he was:chade captain of ttie Rorfiefter, of fifty guns) one of the fliips belonging to the main fleet. How long lie continued in this vefTel we have been unable to afcertain; but, in the month of June 1696, we find him captain of the Defiance, of fixty-foiir guns, a (hip em- ployed Tft the fame line of fervice as the former. He continued incommiflion till the time of his death, which happened on t!ie 4th of May 1699 ; but we are ignorant what particular ftip he commanded after the Oefiance, ■JOHNSON," John, — Was appointed commander of the Kmgsfifher on the 27ihof May 1690. In 1692, he wat ' iromoted to the Edgar, of feventy-two guns, one of the hfps belonging to the main fleet. In this velTel he con- tinued till the month of July 1693, when he waj made captain of the Neptune, of ninety guns, on board jvhich (hip Mr.' Neville had Jioifted his flag as rear- admiral of the blue. We have not been able to coileil any farther particulars relative to this gentleman, or the ftrvice in which he ^vas engaged, till ibe year 1696, when we find him,, in the month of March, commanding the Suffolk; of feventy guns, and fcnt as commodore in this fliip, with the MonK, of fixiy; the Chatham and Wool- wich, of fifty-fcnrcach;\the Deptford, of fifty; the Mary- gold, Portfmouth, and Biddeford frigates ; with five Dutctr (hips of war, to block up the ports of Dunkirk and Calais, and more particularly to prevent the failing of that well-known naval partifan, Du Bart. He appears to have been employed on this Ilaiion duritig the remainder of the year, as' neither his own, or any of the (hips which ha on the 28th of Oduber 1691. KERCHER, Thomas, — was appointed commander of the HuBter fireihip on the igih of April 169b. In the beginningof the year 1693 he was promoted to be captain of the Dolphin, of twenty-fix guns. He was flationed off the weffern coaft of Ireland to pravent of war under his command to go ai convoy 10 the Ncpi tune (loop and Martha galley, laden wiih woollen ai)d olJiir gaodi ; lha| the fdid captain Kerr ai that time feenicd mucii pleafed with ibc. prqi ptiki, and faid the Wipdfor Ihould be ihe fhip, aud ordered Mr. Wood to make what difpaich lie coold in );ettin? the guMey and Qoc^ jeady. Oa leUKi encairagenii'ii he got ready 10 lai], and buughi three, tundrtd neg'oci lo put on Itojid ; and then ac<)uainted captain Kerr iherewiib, ^ud with ihe great charge be wai ai in maiDiaining ihe ni'groei, logeiher with hiifcai of iheir fickncfs. Captain Kerr then faid he fraicd he could not fpate a man of war, bu( (he next dav fcnt Mr. Tudor Trevor, capiain of the Windfor, lo acquaint Mr. Wotjd, that captain Kerr faid, he ifaoujihi Mr. Wood could not banc oifi:rermouia fuin for it; pioiectiuii. After having confentoJ to ihii .very fcandalaui emonion, and a^uaily received hit remainder of the profilt, like a man thoroughly veifed in ali the principles of a contra- band (nde,hcinfonr.cilagaiii(l his coadjutor,! n order to repoirefi him fc If of that money he had paid for the connivance and aSllaiice ; which he WIS before very ready to receive on the terms above-flated, rather ihau forego Ail flare o( the profits. Between (wo traders there would havp been nothing unfair in this tranfafiion -, l>ctw en an officer and a trader there wai much diniunour, added to that fpecies of criminality arifing from his bartering a,way the rcputatioo of ihc office be held ft^ ifaif hit own private ^oapaliry emolumeni. X4 moiit;* LllulllzcduyCOOylL 3t8 IITIB A»D CHAKACTIM 8* month of Januar7 1694-5, when he bravely fell whilo engaging, Tingly, two French fhips, one of Hxty-four, mnd the other of fifty guns. Hiltorians rather vary in their particulars relative to this very gallant xSion. TIm following we honeflly believe the moft atitheptic relation of it. Captain Killegrew, at that time comminder eiHter of the Medway or the Plymouth, was detached, by admiral RufTel, with a fquadron, confiding of fix or feven fourth and fifth rates, in fearch of fame French Ihips of war, faid, at that time, to be cruifing off the iOand of Malta, At Uie time he firfl got fight of them, which was early in the morning of the 27th of January) oif the ifland of Fan- talarea, he was connderablya-beadofanyofthe ihips which compofed his fquadron, fo that he was tingly engaged, for a contideratrie time, agiinfl two (hips, the fmallell ot which ^ag of nearly equal force w ilh himfclf. In this unequal eticounter Killegrew was killed together with a confider- able part of his crew; but the other Ihips carryinga prcfs of fail, at Ian got up to take their thare in the adion : foon after which the I'rench /hips both fur rendered. The largeft, called the Content, was commanded by the count , p6 Caulard, mounted fixty guns, and had a crew of four hundred men: her companion was called the Trident, commanded by the count D'Auliioy, mounting fifty- two guns, and carrying three hundred men*. The latter * The following accouni wai publiOicd at aulheeiic immcdiiteljr •ricT ibe iQian. " Thitcipiaiii Killegiew, having with hin ■ Tqaidron of fevFii £ngliR> ftiipiof war, had, on ibc 97th oFJinmry 1694 5, detached three of ihcm to cruire oFCipe PalTaro, and three in the Channel of Malta, while he himreir icmiincd, with hii (Inglc (hip, off the Pharc of Mefljni. Quickly aftei captain Killegrew fell in with two French Diipiof war, one of riiciy>four, the other of fifty gum, aadagagedtktm hti for the fpare of four houil; when, Dpon the report 01 the gunt, one of the detached Englifh meo of war came in to hi> ilDOMce, who fo well fccunded captain Killegrew, thai ihe French betook thenircUea in a running fight, and, in a Ibort lime, the ftiip of fifijrguiu funen- dered, ami fecn o/frrjlinlj-tbe other, having ail her maAi (hot by the board, ^eldedat*o, and wu carried lo Melbna. There were ott hoard the two French fhiptof war above feven hundred inrn, of which ■Tmoft one-half were killed and wounded: eipiain Killcjcrew wai likewife killed in tbe fight, and aboiu fi^ of hit men kil)-:d and wonndtid." Tfce DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAI- OFPICEXS Of CRIAT WITAIM, 339 it faid, by fdme, to have funfc fom after Hie fiirniidered. This is 3 miHake; Ibe got fafe intp Medina, and wa» afterwards enrolled in the Englilh navy. Chancers IjJts that of captain Killegicw ne«d no encomium, KIRBY, Richard, — was appointed commander of thr Succefs hired fliip of war on the Tth of February 1690, He continued captain of thu vcllel till the year 1692, being chiefly, if not entirely, employed in convoying the Tfie French made ■ confi^nble nierit of the cofrage triib whick thefe iwo fhipi were itfrnd^i ; ind, ictording (o their ufual rpnunii; Waje of reeling »1l *£Kaiit in which ihey themfelvei were conccrDed, Rcoided ( thoufand prodieie* of valour which never exiOtd. Tru« ¥il]antfy neeria not IM eiDDetl>flicne"< of H&itm M Tender ii utra^'wt, be French were very fpifilEdlv attacked by an inferior fcrce: ihtf defended [hcmrclvct CMtngeouUyi and whfD tffifttncp came up w{r« comoelkd to Tubmit. The account aivcn if Campbell afardi at (bme few paiticutari which reconcile tne contradiQioni oFixber bjfloriaiia, and fome all« which are not elfewhere met with. He mafcet, indeed, in comiaun with ilmt^ all of them, the force of the French Ibipi greater iban it really wai. The Content, when taken, earned Giiiy guru only, and iheTrident fifty- Thii information we give u auihcntic : it ii taken from a niMiilcripl lilt of the French fleet in thii year, found laong the Shovel paper*, for the commiinicition of which wc hold ourfelvea very much indebted to lord Romney. ]t ii fiid that ilic Ficnch Qtipt of war, SI firft, miflook the EneliHi (hipi for merch»nl-nicn, and bore down upon them ; but quickly aifcocciing their miOakc, put about and endeayourcd to getaway. Tnat the whole Englifh fguadron, confiftioj of flx Ihipt. were together; and the Plymouth being fo much di fa bled af to be obliged 10 bear away for Medina at Toon ai the other Hve ffaipa !;oi up, three of ihem, the Catlifle, Newcallle, and Southampion pur- u*d the Conienl; and the Falmouth and Adventure iheTriilenr; both which fliipt at length fur reticle ted, after halving made a running fight during ibe night and part of ihe next day, in which they loAaconridcr- able number of men. The Trident, it appeari. beine very Inky in conreqnrnce of iha ^•idinisge Ibe had received in her hull, wu obliged 10 be fentiway immediately to Gorgonli : whirh circnmftance, probably, ocurtnncd the premature report, oF her having funk foon after the aSion waa e tlie alfo addi an anecdote too hoqourible I or to have the rciufcrtion of ii charged 10 the account~of nationil " Wheo captain Killegrew come op with the Content the whole French crew were at prayere; and he might have poured ii) hit broad* ' fide with ^reat advantage ; thit, however, he refufed to do, adding the (ijllowing remarkable eiprefhon, /t ii itiuali the (enrage ef lit £»flj/k tuam ujiirpriit titir tnadtt in/mi » fafivu" coalling Dol..dbvG00^lL- 33» ■ tlVES AND CHARACTERS OF coafting trade. The Succefs being no longer retained in the fcrvice, captain Kirby does not appeur,to have held any comtniflion during the year 1693. In 1694. he was made commander of the Southampton, one of the (hips fent to the Mediterranean, in the courfe of that year, under the command of admiral RulTel, and behaved with much fjpirit and aftivity in the action, of which we have given {oine account in the life of captain Killegrew; a circum- ftance ncccffary to be pointed out, in order to prove that fomething worfe than a natural deftfl of what is called courage, which is a misfortune only, was the occafion of that condiift for which he afterwards fo defervedly paid the forfeit of his life. In the beginning of the year 1696 he had a violent difpute and quarrel with his boatfwain, who xvas tried by a court-martial in confcqiiencc of it, and feverely punifhed, and his own charafler rather fuf- fered in this civil encounter. After he quilted the Southampton, which he did foon after this time, he had no commiflion^till he was appointtd to the Defiance of fixly-four guns, and fent to the Weft Indies nnder the orders ol admiral Bcnbow. His behaviour in the action with the French admiral, Du CafTe, as well as the opinion of the court-martial held iri confequcnce of it, have been already fufficientjy related in the aocoimt given ol" that etigagcment iii ihe life of admiral Benbow. tarly in the following fpring he was fent piifoner to England under the fentencc, on board the Brillol, The queen was Jo highly, and jultjy hicenfed agarnll him, that orders were fent down to all the different ports, to carry the fentence into execution iminediatcjy on the arrival of the Ihip, not only to prevent any applications for mercy, which it was determined not to comply with, but alfo to deter others from ftirinking, on any occafion, from the Ibndard of honour. The ihip arrucd at Plymouth on the 14th, and he was executed on the i6th of April 1703. KIKK, Fiercy, — was appointed fecor.d lieutenant of the Mary, by lord Darimouih, on the 19th of December i68li : on the 8ih of July 1690, he was promoted tq the " We mud cKCept ibal he wai errploycd, In ilie vear 1697, in ihc Wen Indies, under ihc comtnaiid of >id]n;ial Neville, ainl behave^ there, in a wjy very much to his Iiodoui- and repulalion, bul we have OOt bcenable tudifcovcr what Ihip be ci L„u„,z™'o,Coo^Ic HAVAL OFFrCEHS OF GRIAT BtlTAIH. 33I command of the Rofe, a prize taken from the Salletities, sind then corruptly called the Sally Rofe. ile was after. V!3iids tnade csptain of the Cysinet tirelhip, and fcnt, under the command of fir Francis Wheeler, to the Weit Indies, where he died, foon after liis arrival, i>n the 23d of May 1693. iiEAKE, or LAK.E, Sir Andrew, — was ihe fon of Mr. Andrew Leake, merchant, of Loweitofte, in the county of Suffulk; and Di^horah, daughter of Jatnes- Wild, of the fame place. He was appointed coalman-., der of the Roebtick tirc-Hiip on the 17th of Au. gfiSi 1690: but we do not believe him to have taken ' poll till the 9lh of January 1690-I, and in what fhip we have been unable to afcerlain. The next information we have been able to procure relative to him is, his having been appointed commander of the Green- wich in the momh of July 1693. 'j'his (hip was one of. thofe belonging to the grand fleet ; and after that returned into port, lor the winter, was ordered out to cruife at the entrance of the Channel, in company with feveral other third and fourth rates. Hie dilitjence and a<5tivjty, while employed in this fervice, procured him both fuccefs and- commendation. We believe him to have continued in c;ommilliQn during the war ; but have been utterly unable to difcover either the name of the ihip, or fliips, or the particular fervice in which he was engaged. After the peace at Ryfwic lie appears to have retired, fpr a fhori time, to the place of his nativity, LoweltotFei to which town he ever proved himfclf a warm and indefa- tigable friend. In the year 1608 the chapel belonging to that town being in a ruinous flaie, and the parilfi church at too gieat a dilbnce to be frequented by the agtil and infirm, captain Leake, in conjunifiion with a doilnr Peakc, with fo much fuccefs folicited and promoted a fub- fcription, to which he hiirfelf very liberally contributed, for rebuilding it, that the building wab very foun com- pleted under hi^, and the doctor's aufpices and diredion. In the year 1700 captain Leake again returned to the fervice, and wns appointed commodore of a fmall fqua- dron, fcnt to Newfoundland, for the proieitlon of the filhery there. In 1702 he was made capiain of the Torbay, of eighty guns, and failed foon afterwards, under the command of lit George Ruuke, in the expedition ag.iiiilt L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ic 333 Lives AMD CHARACTEICS Ot •gsinft Cadiz. He was fhttoned in the line as one of the ftcondi to rear-admiral Graydon. At the attack made on Vigo, admiral Hopfon, who led with his divifinr, ihifted his flag from ihe Prince Georec into the Torbay*. The particulars relative to this very fmrited attack having been already given in the life of (ir Thomas Hopfon, it would be a ridicoloas piece of taiitolc^ to repeat them her* ! we (hall therefore content ourfelves with faying, Ac behtifiotir of the captain wis, in no refpeS, lets ex- emplary than that of the brave admiral under whtsn he ferved. To his afiivity and perfonal exertions, indeed, h was principally owing, that the flames were fo fpeedily eStingsiflied, after the h^renitp had grappled the loibay. So highly meritorious was his conduct thought, that, itnmediately after the return of the fleet into port, he re- ceived the honour of knighthood. It being neceflary his 0ld Aiip (hoiitd undergo a thorough repair, ftr Andrew was rtmovcd into the Grafton, of fevcnty guns, and was 0r been employed in the fame fervice, which was obliged to quit the line of battle merely for the waot of the power of annoying the eneiby. We now come to the fatal, tbou^ noble cataJlrof^ of this brave man's life. In the engagement, of wlucb we have juH fpoken, he led the van of the com* fnandcT-in-chief, fir G. £jwke's divifion, atid eKcrted • See pv ■**• Li,Q,i,;.du,Coogli: 33+ tiVES And chAract'ers o* himfelf moft eminently, being one among ihore who haA the good fortune to diftinguilh themfelves moft. Sif Andrew unhappily received a monal wound, of which he died before the concliilion of the adion ". The Grafton had thirty-one men killed and fixty-flx wounded, a moft unanfwerable proof of the lliare this ihip bore In this mo^ hiorable enCTgemeni. LEONARD, Robcrtj-^was, on the 3d of May 1690, appointed commander of the Julian Prize. He was afterwards made captain of the Canterbury ftore-rtiip, and fent,in the month of January 1693, under (he command of fir Francis Wheeler, to the Weil Indies, where he died on the 13th of April following, not many days after his arrival there. MAIN, John. —We find a gentleman of this namfe commander of the Saihpfon fire-fhip as far back as the year 1678, but are by no means warranted in alTeriing nim to have been one and the fame perfon with this gendeman, who was made commander of the AiTnrance on the 4th of February 1690. He vras progreflively ad- vanced tp the command of feveral fliips of war'till, in the year 1692-3, he was made captain of the Suflex, of eighty ETins, a new ftiip, which had till that time, never been at fca. He did not join the fleet, in which he was ftatloned as one of the feconds to the earl of Daliby, rear-admiral of the red, till the month of July. At the clofe of the year he was re- moved into the Kent, ih confcquence of theSufTex being ■ Gil1in^ilcr,i[i tilihiHory ofLowcQcffc, of whicb place we have ■Iretdy noticed Gr Aniirew wai a naiivc, givci the rollowing circuni- flantial and melallcholv iccount of the manner of hii tleiih. " In ihitgrcalbatile, called the Malaga light, ihil brave and valiant officer, fir Andrew Ltake, was unfortunately flain, receiving a vraund in hiibody which proved monal. After (ir Andrew had received the fatal wound, and wai cirtied ilown to.the rorgeons to be dreScd. hi* heroic foul, fired with ihe love of hit country, and burning with an infaiiabic thirft for glory, would not fuffer him to remain ialSive ; but defpiling death, ihou;;h futrounded with al) iu terrors, he wTalipcd a table-cloth round hit wounded body, and though pol&Qine oiuy the fmall remiini of life, he placed himfelf in hii elbow chair and gave orderi 10 be caiiied ag^in upon (he quarlcr-deck, where he biivclv fat and partook oF the glories of the day until be boldiv breathed hit Ull." Sir Andrew, fioin the grace and comelincfj of'hii ptrfon, it fai* M bav* been called ^ueea Asoc't baodlbme capuin, appro- uvCoo^Ic KAVAL OFFICIRS OF GREAT SKJTAIK. 23$ appropriated to fir F. Wheeler's flag. In 1695 he was tinrortiiiiate enough 10 incur the ill opinion of fomein foiifcqiicnte of his having, when commodore of a Ibiatl fqiiadron, called off the Portland, one of the fliips under his command, at the inftant fiie was about to engage a French (hip of war : blit his conduit having been enquired into by a court-martial he was honourably acquitted, and foon afterwards appointed captain of the Norfolk, of eiglity guns. We do not believe he ever had any com- mand after he quitted this (hip, which he did at the time of the peace. In the month of July 1702, he was one of the members of the court-martial afTembled for the trial of fir John Munden ; and therefore it is mod probable he, at this time, commanded fome (hip, alihotigh we have not been able to difcovet its name. He was put on the fuperannuated lift in the year 1703, with a penfion of 123I: a year, which he enjoyed till the time of his deaths in 1712. MASON, John,— was appointed commander of the Specdnell on the 4lh of April 1690. He died on the 5th of February following, MONK, Thomas, — was made ftcond lieutenant of the Royal Oak on the 30th of April 1678: on the itth of March 1679, he was promoted to be firft lieutenant of the Mermaid; on the :3d of May 1682, of the Centurion; and, on the I7ih of June 1685, of the Crown. Wb know nothing farther of him till we find him made cap- Iain of the Phrenix, of forty-two guns, on the l5ihof May 1690. He was very foon afterwards promoted to the Happy Return, In the month of February i69i,he was, as Was cuftomary at that feafon of the year, fent to cruife on the coaft of France.; in which fervice he met with very fignal fuccefs, having, between the 7lh and loth of that month, driven fix of their (hips and veftels alhore, one of which was a frigate of twenty-four guns. He was foon after this time captured in the Happy Return, and was not again, as wc believe, employed. On the loth of ■0£tnbcr 1712, in confidcraiion of his paft fervices, and the firm perfuafion that the misfortune which had be- fallen him was unavoidable, he was appointed a captain in Greenwich hofplcal. This very honourable retirement he DolizodbyGoOgle JjS ItVES AKD CSAIACTIBS 0? he did not long enjoy, dying fdme time in tJic yeaf 1714. MOODIE, or MUDIE, James,— was the defcendant r C. ^ovel, was, as we Iwlicve, at his recommendation^ promoted in 169$, to tw Captain of the Yarmouth of fcventy gunsi This Oiip waM one of the fmall fleet employed, under lord Berkeley and fir Cloudelley Shovel, during this fuinroer, principally in the attack and bombardment of the inferior r rencn ports. When the feafon for thofe kind of operations had ceafcd^ ind the Yarmouth was properly refitted, captain Moody teas appointed commodore of a fquadron, coiilif>iiig of eight inips of war and two fircfhips, fent as convoy to the 1 urkcy fleet. He remained on this (lation,andwasenipIoyediniheram« lind of fervice during the whole of this year ; and not only diftinguilhcd himfelfby his great attention to the protec- tion of the trade committed to his charge, but alfo by his great aflivity j which exertion was rewarded with fcvend very valuable prizes which he captured from the eneiny> He returned to England in the month of March 1696-7; and the peace at RyTwic taking place footl afterwards, ne does not appear to have received any other commiffion till after the accellion of queen Anne, when we arc alfured, by his grandfon*, he was appointed to command the Torbay. This Ihip, it is well known, was fcm, under &t G. Rooke, on the expedition againfl Cadiz, and fo * Sm ilw lib of Gr Andrew Luke, pige 331. DolizodbyGoOglt: KAVAL OFftCEIU OF OKBAT BRtTAIH. ' 2V7 remarkable for having been th< {hip on board which vice- admiral Hopfon Ihifted his flag, at the well-known attack on Vi^'O. Independent of that credit ever due to the open tcftimony of a defcenilant, that with which we have been favoured, on this occafion •, is too circumftaniial and particular to leave any reafon for us to fiippofe he is, though at this interval of time, either mifinformed or miftalcen. Captain Moodic had the misfonune to receive X very confiderable and dangerous wound in his thigh by a cannon (hot; he, nevenhclefs,' had the refolution to order acliair upon deck, where he continued till the aflion was over. This was a condufl which certainly required and E roved the mofl extraordinary exertion, both of mind and ody; more efpccially when we confider the very critical fitiiation of his (hip, from which, notwithftandin^ the tnifmanagcmcnt and defe£ls of the French fircfliip, it could not have been refcued, but by the grcatell activity and prefence of mind. ■ After the return of the fleet to England, we believe him to have retired from the fervice for fome ftort time, rnoft probably on accmmt of the wound iuit fiientioned, % grievous, though highly honourable mortification to a man of his fpirit and cntcrpriiing turn of mind. His health, however, being re-eftablifhed, we find him. In 1707, commanding the Lancaller, one of the iliips belonging to the Mediterranean fleet, under fir John Leake. The caution of the French deprived him of any opportunity of again dillinguilhing himfclf in the ordinary courleof ' duty ; but he had the good fortune to cffeft a fervice of the moft confequcntial and advantageous nature to the allied arms. He bad been fome lime before detached, with three or four (hips, up the Levant : while on his paffage thither, learning, by mere accident, from the report of the cannonade, that Denia, a town of very lncon(idcrable note, though from its (iluation of much imp'irtance to the caufe of Charles the Third, was befieged by a for- midable force under the chevalier D'Asfeldt, he imine- diately fcnt his boat on (hore to procure information. Finding the critical fituation, of asairs, and thai with- out fome very confequential fuccour the garrifon could * By ciptain Jamti Moodic of the Oikneya. Vol. II. Y LllQIIIZcduyGOOglC 338 LlVia ASD CftARACTERS Of not poflibly bold out beyond that night, he ininicdiateljr. came to or ^e place, and not only landed a conllderablc number of cannon for the Tervicc of the garrifon, but alfo fent on (bore a reinforcement of four hundred men from the fhips. By this timely and a 1 moll providential aflill- aace the enemy was fo completely ba&led, that the fi^e was raifcd • two days afterwards, * Tbi* veiy honoanble pine of fcrvice wu To highl* accepwblo to king Chwlei, thH he inmeiiinely afwrwirdi wrote the fallawiiig Ictier to queen Anoe, higbty recommending npuin Moodie to her bvour, " Madame ma foenr, " Lecspiiainejamei Moodie, qai eonmande le viiSeuit LiDcafier, aa'arendeu del fervicn li conCderiblet, que je doii prefque niuqoe- laent Tcconoitre de Ton selc la confervaiion de ma tiltc de Deoii, laquelle dcpoiuvue de loulci forlei d'ammiuiiciona n'aurcnt guerea icnue conirc ma fcige de cinque fcmaiu a moini que Ic dit capitaina s'en eut fonrni quelque quanuii fur la reqaiGitoo que lui firent cenx, qui y comnundeni de ma part. Je ne douu pmot qae votre majeflc voodru bien luL fairc reflcniir tea cffeu de fa geDereoIc reconnoilaDce, uac a regard (let ditea fervieea qae de ma prefante iaicrcel&oo, a la- qpelle je n'ajulcrai que I'afleutaace du refpeft et attJKtuneat unccrt avicle quelle Jeruii, •' Madame ma foeor, ".Votre trei aflcQionec frere *' Barcelona ce lad Nov. " Chaklii.'* de 1707. At airo did the eirl of Galway, an (he fame fabjefl, to ibe eul of Suodedand. Thefe leftinonie* are too hoooonbie to the mcmorjr of ihii gallant man to be omitted. . " My lord, " I am defired, by ciptiin Moodie, commander of her majefiy'l Ibip tbc Lancafler, 10 give your lordfliip an account of the fervice be did (he public, about the month o{ June lad, when Deoia w*i be- fieged. Being accidentally bound up ibc SirciEbti at ibat lime, and. iiaviog noiice of ihe condTtion of that garrlfon, lie called there, toge* ther with the Warfpigbi and Triton under hii command, and fo eScc- ttially afTiOed the place with ammunition and men, which helenttbeia. for a lime to put ihcir baticnei !d order, that I am pcrfuadcd tha sretervation of ihat town wai in great meafure owing to him ; wbeie- fore I muft take the liberty of lecommcoding him to yoar lordlhip'f *' I am, wilb gieat truth and refpefi, " My lord, " Yoor lordlbip'* moft obedient fervint, ,' " Li(bot^ April 8, 1708, N. S. " Signed Galloway.** 6 la DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL OtFICBIS OF OREAT BStTAIK. 339 In the month of May 1708, he was appointed, by fir J. Leake, who was then proceeding to the Medtterranean« to be commodore of a fmall rqiiadron, confifling of ths Lancallcr (his own Ihip}, the York, and one Dutch fhip of the line, left to cruile off the Strcights mouth, for the protefiioQ of the commerce of the aitied powers. He continued on thisftation, according to his in(tru£tions, till the 20th of June, when he proceeded to Barcelona und joined the commander-in-chief. He returned with a part of the fleet, from the Mediterranean, in the month of Odobcr; and in the following year was again appointed to command the Torbay, of eighty guns. 'Nothing tnaterial, however, happened, nor Jo we find any mention made of him till he was( in the month of April 171 1, put iinder the orders of fir Hovenden Walker, who was, at that time, appointed commander-in-chief of the fquadron deillned to attdck Quebec. The Torbay, however, pro- ceeded only one hundred leagues to the weflward of Scilly^ her place being fupplied by the Devonlhire, which was thought belter calculated for fo diftant, and, indeed, dan- gerous a fervicei In the year 1717 he cotntnanded the Yarmouth^ of feventy guns, one of the fleet fel^t under fir G* Byng to the Baltic. After he quitted this Ihip, wG belieTS he retired altogether from the naval fervice, to enjoy an honourable repafe on his native fpot, after having ferved frith the utmoll credit to himfclf as well as honour to his country. A memorandum, infertcd a^inft his n^fme in the navy lift, pubh^ied by rear-admiral Hardy, informs US he was killed about the year 1724, in Scotland, in a duel; this has been, hitherto, the generally received opinion^ but by the obliging information of his gtandfon, we are enabled to flate, truly, the particulars of his unhappy and tragical death. Neither his extreme age, nor the rcfpeA generally paid to a man whofe life had been fo honourabl]r jpent, could preferve him from experiencing, even in that lecluded, and we might naturally conclude, hippy fpoC where he was born, all the difmal efiedls of polttical party fury. He had been ever ftrongly attached to thofe opi- * nions and principles of government which firllefFeded the revolution, and afterwards fo happily fettled the fucceC- flon on the houfe of Biunfwick : but the exiled family of Stuart Hill poflelTcd many powerful^ and violent adlwrenl» L„u,l,.™u,C00gIC 3+0 tlVES ANB CHARACTERS OF ■ in Scoiland, particularly in the northern parts of it. Sir - James Stiiarl, of Barray, one of thcfe mifgiiided purfuns, had, in confequence of this prejudice, vowed his deflruc- tion i and the meafiires taken, by him, were fuch as en- furcd it. He placed a fervant, welt armed, in the church- yard of Kirkwall, and attacked this alinofl defencelefs old itian in the ftreet, at noon-day; not fingly, for as fuch ignoble deeds are not nndertaken btit hj the mod depraved minds, fo did cowardice prevent his making thir attempt without the afliftance of his bryiher, who vvas bafe enough to join him in this murderous attempt. Old as he was, the commodore did not fall an eafy vi£lim ; he defended himfelf witji a fpirit and (Irength which deferved a nobler antagonift; aiid. which would have done honour to a much younger man. He rt;pulfcd the -two aflailanls; when the fervant, who was placed as it were in ambufh, fired ,and happily miifed him. Sir •James, however, fully bent on carrying his infamous attempt into execution, called out to the fervant to fir^ again, as, to ufe his own expreffion, " the Hanavirlan dog Jlef>d." The fecond difchargc was too fuccefsful, tlw (lommodore having received a brace ofballs in his fhoiilder, of which wound he died in eiglit days afterwards. Thus he ignobly felt, by the barbarous hands of alTaffins, in the eightieth year of his age, fixry-four of which had been honourably fpenl in the fervice of his country ; and during this immenfc length of time does not appear to have omitted the fmallelt opportunity of proving himfcIf moft truly worthy of being one of tlie perfons entjrullcd with its proteflion. We cannot difmifs otir account of this unfortunate gentleman without making one Ihort remark on his con- dud, which we hope will, in the opinions of all proper thinking men, redound much to his credit. He had the mortification of fceiflg many pi rfoi s of better intcr>.'ft, or who had found fuperjor -opportunities of di it ingui thing thcmfelves, raifcd to the dignity of fijg oflicers *, under whom he afterwards continued to fervc without murmuring or complaint, notwithflanding he was, him- felf, as a captain, ot much older rank. We mention not* aithcn, vice-admiral Biker, L„u,i,;™u,Goo^Ii: NAVAL OFFICERS OF GKEAT BSITAIH. 34I. this with the mod di(tant intention of depreciating the general honours fo defervedly paid to the memory, and (erviccs of the great and gallant perfons' alluded to, but merely to do the neceffary jullice to commodore Moodie's exemplary modelly and lorbcarance. NEVILLE, The H:'noiirablc Edward.^thc grand- fon of fir Chriflopher Neville, created a knight of the bath at the coronation of khig Charles tlie Firft, was the brother of George, lord Abergavenny. He was born in the month of December 166+ ; and hjving entered early in life into the fervice, was, after having regularly pafTcd through the fcveral fubordinale ranks, appointed com- mander of the Swan on the 23d of December 1690. It is very lingular we meet with nothing relative to this ■ tentleman, either in hifiory or amorig any of the private ocumenis we have been able to procure ; even his name is omitted in an oHidal MS. HA of naval commanders, made out in the year 1699. He is confounded by Bcatfon with vice-admiral John Neville of whom an account has already been given ; but as the Jir-names only are in general given by hidorians, the miliake is natural and very cxciife- able. We believe him, however, to have been appointed commander of the Lincoln about the year 1 700, and fent foon afterwards commodore of a fmall fquadron to Vir- ginia, where he died on the laih of September 1701, being at that time only thirly-feven years o!d, NEWTON, Rc^er, — after a very long fervice in the (lation of a lieutenant, to which he was appointed in the year 1666 •, was at lad advanced to be captain of the Saudadoes on the 15th of May 1690. He is fnppofed to have died foon after this time, as no farther mention is made of him. NORftlS, Sir John, — was the dcfcendant of a very refpcflable Irilh family; and having obtained what was called the king's letter, and betaken himfelf to the fea very early in life, was, after having gone through the regular routine of fervice, appointed captain of the Pelican firefhip on the 8th of July 1690, on account of his very me- ritorious behaviour, asalicuienant, at the battle off Beachy ^ead. Hispromotionin the navy was Qow, andnotvcry " To the Heorictu, bj commiHiaa from ibe duke of Yutk. Y 3 regular, . L„u,i,;.du,Goo^It: 34^ Lives AKD CRARACTtltS OF regular, he liaving experienced diany of thofe check! Or retrograde motions to which the braved and bed men have been fometimes fubjeift. In 1693 he commanded the Sheernefs, of twcnty-eighi guns, one of the frigates fent out with the uiifonunate convoy _uiider fir G. Ronkc ; and his diligence and aflivity on that occafion, in carrying his commander-in-chief's orders into execution, are faid to haveeminentlycontributedtoiheprefervation of thofe (hips which did efFedl their efc ape. Soon after his return to Eng- land he was promoted to the Carlifle,afourth rate, in which he was fent, in the following year, to the Mediterranean, iinder the command of admiral RtiiTel. In the month of January 1604-5, he diftinguifhed himfejf very much, under captain James Killegrew, in the action with the Content and Trident French men of war, which were bolh taken. As a reward for his fpirited condufl, he wae, fome time after, recommended, by admiral RiifTel, to bo captain of the Content; to which command he was in confequcnce appointed by the board of admiralty. This Ihip, which was, perhaps, the largeft of her rate everfeenat thattimeof day, carried only fixty guns when Captured i but when taken into the Englim fcrvice mounted fcventy; and was, after being refitted, attached to (he main fleet. Although this was a datlon which, confider- ing the caution of the French, appeared to promife cap- tain Norris little opportunity of effefling any thing par- ticular, or abftradted fronr the general and enlarged ope- rations of the fleet, hir, ncverlhelefs, had the good fortune to capture one of the fined frigates in the French fcrvic*; , Ihe was called the Foudroyant, and mounted thirty-two guns. The following year, 1696, was not fo fortunate to him ; he was fent to attempt the recovery of the Britilh fettlcmenls in Hudfon's bay, which had been fome time he- fore captured by the enemy. His fquadron confided of four fourth rates, as many frigates, two bomb-ketches, and two fire-flilps. On his palTage thither he put iniolheharbour of St. John's, Newfoundland, vi-here, on the 23d of July, he received advice of five French (hips of war being feen jn the bay of Conception. A council of war, compofcdof all the principal land as well as fea officers, was immcdi-.' ately held. In this it was concluded, that the fquadron in qucAion was that of the marquis Dc Ncfmond, fent purpofely L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: HAVAL OrFICERS OP GREAT MITAIH. 34-3 furpordy to attack them. It was therefore refolved, by a majority, of which the land-officirs who were unani- mous in their opinions formed the moll confiderable part, ■ to put the harbour of St. John in the bcil pofturc of dc- feucc time and circumftances would permit, and expe£l the enemy there. Captain Norris, and fevcn other of the naval com- manders out of thirteen were of a different opinioQ, hav- ing too much fpirit to wait the approach of the enemy under the proteSion of the batteries on fliore. The commodore, therefore, who had, from the firft intelligence of the enemy, entertained fome fufpicion that it was nol their outward-bound fquadron, but fome cafual vifitors of inferior force, put in for water or other neceifaries of which they might Hand in need, difcatched' one of his frigates to reconnoitre and procure farther information. Before this veiTel could return, the whole matter was de- veloped by a letter, from the maftcr of a fhip taken by th* Ihtps in queltion, who informed captain Norris the Iqua- dron was that of the fieur De Fointi, returning to Europe laden with the plunder of the Spanifli Wed Indies. He fent at the fame time a particular account of the ftrength of the enemy, which was fo inferior as to promife it an almoft ceitam prey, efpecially to a commander of captain Norris's known ability and gallantry. Bated as he himfelf was, at this joyful piece of intelli- gence, he could not infufc the fame fpirit into the majority of tl)^inembers who had compofed the council of war. They Rill adhered to their former opinion, and affeiled either to difcrcdit the information, or, what was worfe, believe it an attempt to betray them to their ruin. The intelligence they afterwards received, thou^ it continually tended to corroborate the former advice, Veiled no alter- ,ation in their fentimcnts : fo that the commodore, whom compuIFivc inactivity, irritated almoft to madnefs, was obliged to content himfelf with preparing to receive an enemy who never had fpirit, or, inileed, fuAcient force to attack him. Let UE, however, do every juftice to the prudential ^ gentlemen who enforced this advice, which, though per- haps ill-timed when given, proved, in a (hort time after, the'proteflion, if not the prefervation of the fi^uadron. 14,, In L„u,i,;.du,Goo^Ic 344 LIVES AND CRASACTEKS OF In about a monlh after this time monfieur De Nefmond Mriveil : his fqiiadron confided of fixteen fhips of war, ten of which were of fixly gims and upwards: but on viewing the intrenchments and redoubts that were thrown up, and ihe general preparations made for their reception, they thought it moft pnident to retire without hazarding an attack, which wouid, in all probability, have ended in their defeat or dcflniaion. Thns was the poff^ffion of Newfoundland preferved by a condiifl condemned by mod naral commanders, and which afterwards became the fnb- je£t of much parliamentary ccnfurc, The commodore returned to England in the month of OSober, with captain Dilkcs, and the fquadron which had been, diiring the preceding fummer, on the Weft India ftation. Notwithftanding the clamour of the people, at firft violent, knew not how to divide their anger and acquit the commander-in-chief, while it condemned fomevf thofc who afled in a fnbordinate flation : thcij- ragr^on fubfided; and captain Norris, rcinftaicd in the good opinion of all, continued to 1m employed, during th^ whole peace, as commander of the Winchefter, on the Mediterranean and Newfoundland ftations. After the accedion of queen Anne he was made com- mander of the Orford, of fevcnty guns, one of the fhipj employed in the Catiiz expedition • ; during which a cir- cumftance cf a ferious nature took place ; and, had it not been properly accommodated by the kind and immediatt Jnterpofition of the duke of Ormond, might have b'4Ki pro-r du^ive of very difagreeable confequences (o him, Captain Norris unhappily poJTeffed a natural warmth of temper, which fometimes betrayed him into an e.x'ravagance of tondufl fcarcely to be palliated, and (till left dtfeiitted. On fome private difpute with captain Ley, the caiife of which ■we are unable to inveftigate, Mr. Norris was imprudent enoughtodrawhisfwordirponhim; and what ftilj, if that ■ were necefTary, heightened the outrage, it took place on the quarter-deck ofthc Royal Sovereign.theveryftiip Mr, Ley, at that time, commanded, as firft captain to fir G. Rooke. For this violent breach of civiJ decorum and military ftlb- • On hit piffjgB 10 Ctiii fae bad (bp joofl fbiiuuE to tj^ ftur of five priiet. ordinati< ^, _.c„,z™..,Cooglc KAVaL OrFICESS OP GREAT BKITATN. 34; •fdination, he was immediately put under an arrefl by the admiral ; but owing, as we have already related, to the kind interference of the duke*, who was [larticularly at- tached to him, and his own prudent fubmillion, this! .tronblefome affair was paffed over without fanher notice; and the death of captain Ley, which happened very foon ifterwards, did nor, perhaps, a lirtle contribute to the Ipeedy and peaceable iL-rmination of it. Nothing material happened to him during the remainder of the expedition. In the following year he ftili cdntinued in the fame Ihip, and accompanied fir C. Shovel to the Mediterranean ; but nothing vtry worthy of rectHii appears to have particularly marked his fervice, except his having taken, while on his palTage from Falmouth to join the fleet, a French privateer, called the Philip- peaux, mounting thirty-fix guns and twelve patararoes^ manned with a chofen crew of two hundred and forty, men. This vefTe), although fo much inferior in force ts the Orford, did not furrender til) after an hour's difpute, in which Ihe had near fifty men killed and wounded; the Orford herfelf having her mails and rising much that- tered, and eight of her crew defperalely wounded. In three or four days afterwards he captured a fecond, of Tixteen guns and one hundred and ten men. Being afterwards detached with four fhips, by the commander, in-chief, to reconnoitre the harbour of Cadiz, he had fufficient addrefs 10 procure cxad information of the enemy's force, and the difpofiliou of it. On the return of the fleet into the Channel, in the month of November, captain Norris being a-head with the War- fptght and Litchfield, gave chace to and engaged a large French fhip of war, called the Hazard, carrying fifty-two guns and four htmdrcd men. The enemy made a moft icfulute defence, not having furrendered till-after a nin- ning fight of fix, or, as fome fay, nine hours, and bein|[ totally difablcd in their mafls and rigging. In 17041 he Aill continued to command the fame fhip, end was flationed as one of the feconds to fir C, Shovel, in the engagement with the French fleet off Malaga. His gallant behaviour on this occafion laid the foundation • The original Jeiter* whjch pifftA beiwtcn ihe duke of Ormond js^Gr George, on thif very exiiaoidinsryoccaGou, ucAillpfcfcivcd. gf L„u,i,l™u,Goo^It: 346 lIVEfi AND CRARACTISS OF of th«t ftiandflitp and elleem which ended not but wdh liic Uie of the latter. In the following year capuin Nor- ris was appointed to command the Britannia under him, he being made, with the earl of Peicrbo rough, joint-ad- miral ol the fleet fent to the Mediterranean in fupport of the caufe of the arch>duke Charles, and his pretentions to the crown of Spain. Ue ftgnalifed himfelf To much in the attaclc of fort Montiuic, that the arch-duke Charles lecommcnded him moft warmly to |he favour of queen Anntt in a letter ourpofely written to her on that occa- lion. The fovereign was not flow in rewarding that merit which had been fo confpicuous as to procure this Tery honourable patronage, for captain Norris naving been fcnt home, in the Canterbury, with the news of the fur- render of Barcelona, had the honour of knighthood bo- flowed on him, accompanied by a prefent of a thou^d guineas. During the year 1706, we have rcafon to believe him to have been unemployed, as, after the llri^eft fearch, wc have not been able to find any mention made of him : but en the loth of March 1700--7, he was promoted to be rear-admiral of the blue. He was appointed to ferve in diis Oatton, under his old friend fir Cloudefley, who had the Mcdilcrranean command during that year. Sir John hoilled hia flag 00 board the Torbay, and fortunately 0Kt with a better opportimity of dillingui(hing himfeu while employed in this fervice, than any he had ever be> fere experienced ; having the good fortune, as it ntajr always bejuftly {tiled when falling to the lot of a brave man, warmly interelled in the welfare of his country, to be detached, by the commander-in-chief, with four BritiOi and one Dutch fhip of the line, to force the palTage of die Var. A detachment of fix hundred feamcn and ma- rines were coUefied and pqi into the boats of the fleet, leady to attempt a landing, as foon as it Ihould be found the fliips had made fome imprelQon on the enemy by their cannonade. Sir Clotidedey htmfelf accompanied flr John Norris to the plac« of action, that he might be the better able to judga of the pofhire and difpofition of the enemy, as well as to Icize the lirll advantage of their confufion, or injudicious conduct. ThcimpreTfionmadchy the fliips was very foon vifiblei _ IN.™ .., Google NATAL OFPtCEtS 07 GRBAT SftlTAIN. 347 vifible ; fir Johti being ordered to land, and attack the intrenchments in flank, executed this command with fo much fpirit and good condufl, that the enemy, fearful of being fiirroundea, and put to the fword, quitted their works with the utmoft precipitation. Thus was a fer- vice eSeded, and with the moft trivial Infs*, where vee had previoufly expefted the moft determined oppofition. ■ Durin? the continuance of the {lege of Toulon, which followed immediately after, fir John appears to have been oneoftheprincipalperfonsconfulted, by the command^, in-chief, as a tnan in whofc found judgment he placed an unlimited confidence. He returned from the Mediter- tanean in the month of Oflober following, in company with the red of the fleet j and had the good fortune to efcape, though with fome difficulty, th« dreadful difafler which befel fcveralof the fhips, and among them, that of the commander-in-chief. Soon after his arrival theaffiur of fir Thomas Hardy, of which notice will be hereafter taken, began to attraA much of the public notice. The clamours of the people not being fatisfied by the very honourable decilion of the court-martial, it was judged proper, for their better fatisfaflion, to refer it to the opi- nion of prince George, allified by fix flag-officers. Of this number fir John was one ; and their approbation of the acquittal of iir Thomas had fufficient weight with the nation to put a (lop to the tide of perfecution. In the month of December he removed his flag into the Exeter ; and on the 3i(t of the fame month found fur Pentfcola near lh« inouih of (be Eliro, and laden with provllions for iIk duke of Anjou't army. Through ftr John'i gieai atliviiy (ixty-nine, or, ai ioiiie fay, ■ ereaier number wcie captured. In the annali of queen Anne, u well as in Lediard, it ti crrone- cnfly ftatc belonging to the fubjefb of Great Britaio, in hi* dontnton*, to be fciied and cooiifcated. Tbefe memeei and provo- caUonawereat length jufltyrefeaicdi and about thit tjtne ordeit fent, |o Gr John Notrii, to join the ceofederaie fieet." Lediard, page 8691 t For tbe naval opcntion* of tbe enfuing year, aad the event of af tbudifpute, fee tbe lifeof firGeorgeByng, pagcaoS. Campbell aakea the followiDa qtinnt thtRish Jull itmark, " When the CDm- merec of Btiiaiti lu&n, a Biiiiu fleet ia the atofl afleSnal reuedjr that can be applied." ..Cookie NAVAL OPPICBBS OF OKEAT BRITAIN. ^t In the ycBri7i7 the fleet, dcllined for the fatne ferrlce as in the preceding, was put under the command of (ir George Byng; and fir John Norris was appointed to ferve, in a civtl capacity, as envoy extraordinary and mi- nifter plenipotentiary to the Czarof Mufcovy. Nothing, perhaps, could have been more agreeable than this ap- pointment to Peter, who ^ways preferred the character of a naval commander, particularly of fo brave a one as Hr John, to that of the mofl confummate politician in (he imiverfe. From this trait we cxpe£l, as a natural coafe- quence, that cordial tntercourfe which never fails to tak« pUce between two pcrfons of the fame turn of mind. That confideration probably influenced the chrnce ; and the perfonal friendfliip which ever afterwards fubfifted bo- tween the parties fufficieniiy proved the wifdom of it. After fir John's return from this embafly he was, on the 19th of March 1717-18, appointed one of the commifli- oners for executing the office of lord high admiral; a ftation he enjoyed, and with the mod unblemilhed repU' tation, till the 19th of May 1730. In the beginiung of April he was re-appointed to the command of the Beet, which the known reftlefs temper of Charles ihe Twelfth, of Sweden, had forced Britain into the annual custom of fending into the Baliic. Having hoilled his flag on boaid his old fhip, the Cumberland, he failed from the Nore on tlie 28th, his force confifting of nine Ihips of two decks, a tire-fhip, and a bomb-ketch, which 'were afterwards to he joined by fome trifling reinforcements. The operations and event of the naval campaign of this year differed no- thing from thofe of the two which had preceded ; the Swedes retiring to their harbours without waiting ihe at- tack : and that which Ihould have been the fcene of holUU* ties, enjoying a tranquillity very different from a ftate of a warfare. At length, the feafon beiog too far advanced fiw any farther operations in fo cold and mhofpitable climate, fir John failed for England on the 29th of Oi^obcr; and, as if is Ihrewdly obfervcd, by many hiflorians, this northern war foon after ended with the death of Charles the Twelfth, who was killed at the Iiege of" Ficdeiics-hall> in Norway, on the 30th of November following. In the enfuing fpring fir John was again called into fervice in confequence of the uoufual warlike preparations of L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 35* LIVES AND CHARACTERS Of of Spain, and an apprehendon, very jiiflly founded, that (he was, at that very timt, meditating an invafion of Great Britain in favour of the Pretender, He Ciiled from Spit- liead on the nth of March, having under his command ■five two-decked (hips ami two frigates ; and being joined on the following day by a fifty gun-fhip and a frigate, pro- ceeded, according ta his inftrudtions, to cruife 9t the entrance of iht Channel, in hopes of intercepting a Spani(ft fquadron of five fliips of war which were to cOnvoy a fleet of forty tranfporls, with troops, warlike flores, Iparc arms, and one million pieces of eight, all deRined for the -expedition jiift mentioned. On the 30th of ihe fame month fir John was joined, by the carl of Berkeley, ■with fevcn more (hips of war. The earl, after having detached vice-admiral Mighels, to the coaft of Gallicia for intelligence, returned, on the 4th of April, into the ■ Channel, as fir John did very foon afterwards, information being received that the Spaniih armament had been com- pletely difperfed, in a gale of wind, off cape Finifterre; and that the principalpart had, with much difficulty and damage, put back into the Spaniih ports. , This cloud of war had Tcarcely patted over when a frefh one arofe, from a quarter little expefled. 'J'he animofity of (ir John's Imperial friend, and former com- mander, Peter, had not abated on the death of that an- tagonift, with whom, what had been a pnhlic difputc in the beginning,- afterwards alraod degenerated into a pri- vate haired, The fall of Charles the Twelfth appcafed not the anger of the vindiflive and amhilious Peter, who, in all the extacy of barbarity, elated by conqneft, flatK;red "himfelf with the hope of addini^ Sweden to his own dominions, as a recompcnfe for the trouble and anxiety its relllefs turbulent monarch had formerly occafioned him. This arbitrary and oppreflive attempt the equitable fpirit oftheBritifh court would by no means permit. Sir John, therefore.preparing to enter the liftsof naval combat again(i ,the man whom he formerly in(iru£ted, at ihe time he had, through delicacy and compliment, nominally ferved under Mm, again hoKterf his flag, as commander-in-chief in ttie Baltic, on board the CumbL-iland. His force was 16 have confiflcd of thirtten (hips of the line, with fix frigates and imall velTcls. But fcvcral delays taking place in the I equip- L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc MAVAi. OFFICBXS OPGtEAT BIITAIN. 353 e<)uipinem, he did not fail from the Downs till the loth of June, and then with only eight lliipj ; nor does it appear whether, and when the remainder of his force jmned him.' He arrived at Copenhagen in the month of June; and after fome time fruiiiefsly fpent in endeavouring to ac- commodate the national difference without proceeding to extremities, failed to Carlfcron to join the Swedilh fleet. This being efl'efled, the confederates arrived at Dahlen» near Stoclc holm, on the loth of September. Sir John had there the honour of entertaining, on boatd his Ihtp, the queen of Sweden, together with the prince of Helle Cafle), and. all the principal pfScers of the court. Ths year pafTed on, as was cullomary in the Baltic, without any action ; for the Czar, who had before the arrival'^of the Britifli fleet ravaged tlie coall of Sweden, according to his ufiial bari>arou3 method of carrying on war, no fooner heard of its approach, than he thought it moft prudent to retire to the harbour of Revet, and uuink from a cpntefl to which he mult know his fleet, the political . idol of his heart, was unequitl. On the approach of winter fir John prepared to return to EnKhmd : he ac- cordingly fet faiifiom Ellineiir on the 27H1 of OQober, and arrived at Copenhagen on the 6th of Movembei. He was there received with the grcatefl cotdiality and re-. fpe£l by the king of Denmark, ootwith (landing the dif- ference which ftill continued to fubfift between him, and the court of Sweden. This fir John took all pollible pains \o accommodate, by reprefenting, in the moft im- preflive terms, to the king, that no perfon could profeHs a more real and (incere defire to make peace, on what could be thought reafonable terms, with nis majeflvi than did the queen of Sweden. The king, perfe£t1y latisfied with the adtniral's honourable condua Uirough the whole of this fervice, paid him every po(&blc mark of diflin^ion sitd refpeft. He faHed from Copenhagen on the lathof November \ and after having, during his palTage, encoun- tered a molt dreadful ftorm, which happily, however, did no other mifchiefithan that of flightly damaging fome (^hta Oiips, arrived fafe at the Nore the latter end of the fame month. The peace not being yet eftablifhed, fir John, rft-ap- pointed to his foToter command, failed for the Baltic oo Vei. II. Z the DolizodbyGoOgle 354 LIVIS AND CHAIACTERS OT Oie t6th of April, having hoiftcd his flag on board iha Sandwich, of ninety cuns. His force was much mors formidable than it had ever hitherto been, conlifting of no lefs than twenty fhips of the line, four frigates, two bomb-ketches, and two firetfaips. The Czar had now s fre(b pretence, of itfelf quite fufficient to inftigate a tur- bulent prince to continue, or even declare war. The Swedea, at the inflance of the queen, had elefted th« prince of Heffe, her confort, to be their fovereign; by which meafure they had efkStoi an alteration in their form of government, and converted an hereditary into an elective ftivereignty. This, thou^ indeed an excluHon of the natural heir to the crown, the young duke of Hol- flein, the queen's nephew, was an afeir which concern- ing only tncir internal polity, no foreign power could have a jM'oper right to interfere in, Keverthelefs, tha Czar, efpoufing the hereditary right, prepared for war with -more than ufual vigour, threatening S>vedeir with all thofe horrors which he well knew how to in^id on thof^ who were in h« power, unlcfs the fenate would reverf* their own ad, and place the duke on the throne. In cafe of their compliance his Imperial majeAy promifed to give his daughter in marriage to the young king, with aU thefe prownces whkh he hadformtrlj nnftindfrm Svatdm as a dvwry. To countera^ this^«/swi interference altcl lihraiotFa, and to prefervc to Sweden the right of appointing thei* own fovereign, was the obje^of this armament. Having arrived in the Baltic the beginning of May, it was ther* ioiijtd by afquadron of Swedifh fliipi ; and on the twenty- fourth of the fame month, by a fecond reinforcement of feven fail of the line, under the command of admiral Wachmeiller. The operations of this year were not at alt more intere(ling than thofe of the preceding. The very appearance of the Britifti fleet being fufhcierit to reltrain the intemperate fury of the Czar from venting itfelf on rfic otnerwife almofl defencelefs coalls of Sweden. Sir JohnV reprefcntationB to the king of Denmark in the former year, already taken notice of, contributed iroWl)Iy to accelerate a treaty of peace, which was ipptly concluded with Sweden in tne prcfent. Botli •tha u, Google Ei KAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BB,ITAIK. 35^ the monarchs appear to have been equally well-plcafed at this tenninatjon of the difpute. The king of Sweden was entertained by fir John on board his mip; when his majefly took occafion to exprefs himfelf, in the htghell tertns of regard and afTeSiun to him. The Briiifh fleet returned home in the tiionlh of November, and experienced in its paflage, as it liad in the laft year, a molt violent Dorm, and with more lofs ; for the Monk, of fifty guns, was driven afhore and totally lolt. The Czar ftill refufing to confent to the peace of norihcrn Europe, it was once more judged neceirary to equip a fleet, under fir John's command, for the Bahic. Its iorci; was nearly the fame it had been in the preced- ing year, confifling of twenty-one (hips of the line, wiih feven fmaller velfelsj and its operations were equally uh- inlerefling. The fquadron being completely ready for fca in the month of March, fir John failed from the Nore on the I3lh of Aprilj and having arrived in faftty in the Baltic, was joined by the Swedifh fquadron, as was cuf- tomary. Peter finding it in vain to perfill any longer to , perfecute a people too powerfully fupported for him to effcdt the conquefl of, at lail confented to liften to that voice of reafon, he had been fo long deaf to. The negociations were finally concluded,, by the peace figned at Niefhdt, on the 3ift of Augull, under the fuccefsful mediation of Britain. Matters being at laft brought to this favourable crifisy to which, indeed, the prclehcc of fir John, and the fleet under his orders not a little contributed, he returned to England in the month of Oftober : and peace being completely ellablilhed, fir John had the fatisfadion of enjoying, in a molt honourable retirement, that repula- , tion he had fo juftly acquired. We do not find, except in 17^3 when he had the honour of convoying kmg George the Firll from Helvoetfluys to England, that he held any other command after this time till the year i727» when the apprehcnfion of an attack meditated on Sweden, by the Czaiioa, (nade it once more expedient to fend a fquadron into the Baltic. It confiiled of twelve (hips of the line, with five frigates and fmaller veflels, Ht failed from the Nore the latter end of April, and anchored iathe rOad pf Copenhagen on the 12th of May. Its aftpear- 2 2 ance L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc 3j6 lives ADD CRAKACTEK8 OF ince produced the lame etfe& which it always had An former (xrcafions; and Sweden, remained unatlacked bc- caufc Ihe was prote3ed by Britain. In confequence of a new civil arrangement fir John ouiited, in the year 17J0, the office of commiflioner of the admiralty, which he had hdd for a feries of years, and it is a fuflicient eulogium on his general condu£t to add, as wejuillycan, without incurring ccnfure, or even exi iting a murmur. From this time, till the year 1735, he again enjoyed a tempoiary relaxation from the fatigues of fervice. Adifpute navingthen arifen between the crowns of Spain and Portuc;al, and the latter applying to Britain for protection, admiral Norris, who had, dur- ing his retirement, been, on the 20th of January 1732, advanced to be admiral of the white, was appointed to command a formidable fleet, with which he failed fooh aftervi'^rds fur Lifbon. His arrival there wai regarded by the people as a certain deliverance ; and it now produced, in a fuuthern clime, the fame eSk& which we have already leen it did in the north ; the Itorm of war inflantly breaking away, the fleet returned and was difmantled. On this occalion the Britifli admiral might, with foms trtiih, vie with the Roman general, who is faid to have finilhed a war in feventcen days, after he had taken upon him the command. In after ages many truly bril- liant exploits of the prefent day may probably eclipfe, in fame, thofe of antiquity which are now laoR cele- brated. The repeated injuries and provocation offered by the Spaniards, the many depredations and piratical ferzures made by their guarda coltas, at lengtl^TSufed the indig- nation and fury of the whole Britifh nation, nolwith- fkndine the very pacific difpofilion of the minifter, who, found, in the year 1739, that however he himfeff might deprecate the event, war was at laft become inevitable. Sir John, who, during the month of April in that year, was appointed vice-admiral of Great Britain, was again called into Icrvice as admiral and commander in chief of th« fleet. The preparations for war were continued during the winter and enfuing fpring; but the (hips dedined for th« Channel were not completely fitted and coliedled till the latter end of June. At laft, on the 23d of Juty, admiral u,Q,i,;.dD,Goo^Ii: KAVAL 0PFICEK3 OP GREAT BRITAIN. 357 adminl Norris, having under his command vice-admiral Cavendi(h and Hr Chaloncr Ogle, with twenty-gne (hips of the line, put to fea mercSy with intentioH to cruife ' in the bay uf Bifcay. Contrary winds and tempcftuous weather prevented them from clearing the Channel, although the greateft exertions were made to effedl that purpole: and they were finally compelled to put into ' I'orbay abuut the latter end of Aiigull. They aitervrards returned into port for the winter. The eyes of ihe v*hoIe nation were turned, as it were with one accord, on the failing of this fleet. Each poUr tician formed to himfelf his own opinion as to its parti- cular dcflinatjon; but all were unanimous in aerceing^ that Tome great liroke was to be attempted agamll the enemy. No nation perhaps in the Univerfe is fonder of encouraging thebelieiofamyfterythan Britain. The people itnagined the deltination of this fleet was a profound fc- crct becaufe minifters were flient on this flibjcfl ; having, in reality, no other plan in view than a general one of ■ cruiling againll the enemy: even this was fruflrated hy the weather: and the dilappointment of the multitude, who had, perhaps, flattered themfelves with the hope of feeing at leall half the Spanifh navy brought triumphant into port, could find no other relief than by venting itfelf, ia fruitlcfs and unjufl murmurs, both againll the coni- piandcrs, and miniOers themfelvesi Sirjohn.notwiihltandingthisfuppofedill-iitccersandthe clamour which purfued it, had too much magnanimity to ihrink from a fervice where the want of efFcfling impofCbi- liiies might, in all probability, render him what is called unpopular, and hazard the deftruflion of that honeft fame iie had before defervedly acquired. He retained his for- mer cutimand during the enfuing year; and was equally incapable of atchieving any thing worthy to be commc* morated in the page of hiltory f. He failed from Spit- head, having hoillcd his flag on board the Vidlory on the l6th of July, with a fquadron of fiMeen Ihios of the lioe . and a few frigates : yet it was expected that with this * The only fervice thjr appean to h»ve been effeflrd by any turt of (hi( fquadron it, ibii I he Argyle, commaaded by capltin HarnTfHi, cap lUied 6ve prises in ibe bay oF Rodoodelicw Z 3 force. L;,Q,i,;.du,GoO^Ic ^5^ LIVES AND CRAXACTIRS OF force, which was very far from formidable, hi niodld have annihilated the Spanl(h navy, and deftroyed every town upon their coaft. Campbell, who on other occa- fions is very fond of condemning particular pcrfons for making war on the defencclefs, and bringing mifery on thofe who are not adhially in arms, is incautious enoughj on this occafion, to fay, " that with this farmidabU fleet fir John might, with the utmoft facility, have injured the enemy moff effentially, by ravaging their, ceafis andde- . ftroying their maritime towns, which were aJmoJi totally AfmceUfs." The real fafl, however, is, that a!l fuch towns, worthy the attention of a national attack, were too well fortified and garrifbncd to fear the afTault of a fleet double in point of force to that commanded by him, elpecially unfupported as he was by a body of troops and every other fpccies of equipment necelTary for fiich an ope- • jation. As for fuch towns as C&mpbell dcfcribes totally defencclefs, they were, either on the fcore of private emolu- ment or public advantage, beneath the notice of half a dozen {loops of war, or as many privateers. The fleet certainly returned into port without effeiling any thing; and it is as certain the people were very much diflatisfied at it: but they judged without underltanding the cafe, and condemned becaufe they did not underlland it. The charadler of the admiral, in point of fpirit and zeal for the fervice, flood far too high to render an attack upon it, on that ground, prudent or fafc. The battery of Clamour was, of courfe, obliged to be changed ; and when on refleoii encreafcd even to a tempeft ; fo that by the next morning th^y had got the length of Portland, where a thick ffg ari ling, their Tvhole fleer was difpcrfed, and gfSi back into port with miKh difficulty, in a very diflrelftd and Hiattcred con- dition. Sir John, difappoinied in his hope of dtltroying this formidable armamEnt, "hich had been fo Ihort a time befoie the terror of the multitude, returned to his ftation, * Tbe orderi ifTued by ibc Ficnch admiial, in eonrcqiicnce of il, wtre, " to avoid ai[ engagement by wAghing iheir anchori speck, at funfct, aod To remain till ibe tide made at (even o'clock ; wbcri ihc ■drniral Ihould f^et up hii ufual Ifghii and get iindrr Lil. By his firiiig 1 gun each Diip (hould get under fjil, and dunbllni; ihe |.u)iit of the bay tu ihe wellwaTd, gel out 10 Tea and make tlie WH of their ~ way back to Brcil wiihuui any regard 10 the liue of Uiile." L;,Q,i,;.ju,Goo^It: HA.VAL OFFICERS OF GKEAT BRITAIN. 361. in the Downs, on the 27th, for the pitrpore of blocking up the port of Dunkirk, having &tH detached fir Charles Hardy, with all the three dtcked (hips, for Portfmouth. This we believe to have been the laft time he ever was at fca. He had been in fcrvice, and ahnofl conliamly fo, fixty years. Age and infirmities rendered rciiremcnt neceflary ; but he had not lung the happinefs of enjoying it, as he died on the 19th of July 1749". Although many may have had the good fortune to ac- quire a greater iliare of popula/ npplauft^, none have had a nobler andjuller claim to public gratitude than this brave and able commander ; or have been more truly entitle:! to the compafTion of thofe who arc capable of feeling for that degree of misfortune which rarely failed 10 attend hJm through life. Seamen, who are, as a body of people, in all probability the mod fuperfliiiaus in the worlit, con^ ftantly foretold a ftorm whcnevt-r fir John put to fea. Tlie frequent accidents which bcfcl the Ihips and ftjna- drons under his command, the misfortunes which attended him, and which being infiided merely by jhe hand of heaven, could not be warded otT by any human prudence or fagacity, procured him the whimlical appellation of feul-wtatljer jack; by which fofler name he waf, p.-rhiip^, belter known in the fervJce than by his own proper iHIe and ti:le. In reviewing his public life ar.d conduct, we cannot find a fingle point in which he appears liable to cctifiire : and were We to fay no more, this wDuld> perhaps, be 3 Jufficient degree of applaufc to acquire him the admiration ' of all confiderate men. Lc* thofc, if any, who think othcnvife, reflefl, for a moment, i69'2 he was promoled to the Forelighl, of forty-two guns; and fent out in the following year as convoy 10 ihe-Virginia Seet. On his return from this fcTvice he was llaiioned for fome time as a cruifcj*, and afterwards advanced to be captain of the Ipfwich, one of the fhips attached to the main ileet. In this command we believe he continued till after the peace at Ryfwic. During the cefTation of hollilities he appears to have been conllantly in fome command. After the acccHion of " In thii fcrvice he met wiih good Tucccfi, h»Tin», befidei other I)rok« of fotiiine, which hi> giUdiKry and conitua knew well how 10 improve, liken or deOroyed eleven or iwclve Tciicli laden wilh corn, in ihc month of May 1694, nolwiiliflandipgihey wc'c protefled by fevcB frlK*ie(, one of whirh mounted foriy(;unii md ihc force under upuin Toviifend conliflcd, exclusive of bit owo Ibip, only of one aimed Ihip and four piivaiecrt. queen L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: NAVAL OPPlClKS or GRBAT BKITAIN. 365 queen Anne he was made captain of the RulTel, of eighty tuns -y and Tent, in 1703, to the Mediterranean, with the ' eet under the orders of fir Cloudeflcy Shovel*. After h» quitted the command of this Ihip he retired from the f«r- vice, being appointed commillioner of the navy refident at Portfmouth, in the year 1705. In I7t3< probably on account of fome political party difpute, he was fuperfeded, and appointed an cxtra-cooi- millioner of the navy ; but redored in tRe following year to his office, which he retained till the year I7,a9t. Being then in a very advanced' age and incapable of un- dergoing the fatigues of his office, he retired on a jpenfion^ anda fecond appointment, to be extra-commilhoner of the navy ; thefe he did not long enjoy, dying on the 26th of May 1731. URRV, Thomas,— 'Was appointed commander of the Wolf fireihip on the i8th of April 1690, He continued many years in the fame line of fervice. In 1692 he wsu removed into the Strombolo, one of the fireOiips attached to the main fleet, with which he ferved two or three years. After this time we hear nothing of hiin, except that he died, in the year 1699, commander of the Margate frigate. VAUGHAN, Rt^r," — was appointed lieutenant of die Loyal Subject as far back as the year 1665. We know not ot hisiiaving received any other commiffion lUl the 6th of September i688, when he was appointed to the fame Hation on board the Greenwich. He was promoted to the command of the Richmond frigate on the 23d of OtElober 1690.. In 169a he was captain ot the Milford, of thirty-two gunSr employed, during this year and the next, as a cruifmg frigate. Early In thc-yeac 1694 he was promoted to the Dartmouih of forty guna; and itill continued to be employed in the fame fpecies of lervicc. Early in the month of February 1694-5, Hill coittioying in the fame command, he had the misfortune to fall in with two very large French frigates, carrying forty gun« ' He Tctv naTTO«lj> efcaped dcIlruQion in ihc great florn, beifit o ihe cout of Holland, aod having experienced mucb dinrefi. t During ibii lime, wc believe aboaE tlie ytu tjtj, he teuivfd the honour of knighthood. t and L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: 366 ' LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF and Mv6 hundred and fifty men each. The a^ion coni^ hienced about fix o'clock in the morning. on the 4th, and ^tas maintained, with the grealeft fpirit and bravery, tilt noon. The Dartmourh was then compelled to Surrender, after having juft before loft her brave commander. The (hip was reduced to a mere wreck, had loft her Inaih and mixen-mafts, and was withal fo much damaged iti the huli as to be fcarcely able to fwim: nor is this to be wondered at, when we reflect the force of the enemy was double her own. VICKARS, William, — was appointed, on the 31ft of March 1690, commander of the Dolphin firefliip. In the following year he was promoted to the James galley, *f thirty guns. Having, in the year 1692, being ad- vanced 10 the command of the Dragon, a large fifth rate, he was fent, early in 1693, under the command of fir F. Wheeler, to the Weft Indies. Remaining on that ftation after the return of ihe commander-in-chief, he died thecc .6n the 25th of November iti the following year. WALFORD, John.— Little have we 10 relate of this gentleman, he having been only appointed a captain, on the 2ift of J uly 1 690, as commander of the Rot^uck fireibip ; and dying on the 29ih of Auguft following. WtlGHMAN, Frederick, — was appointed com- mander of the Spy firelhip on the 5th of April 1690. In ' j692he was advanced to be captain of a frigate of thirty guns, catted the Play Prize, and was principally employed in convoying, from port to port, the fmall fleets of coalters and tranfports. Having been unhappily guilty of fomc .neglect of duty, he was brought lo a court-mariialon the jSth of Augult 1694, and fined all the pay then due to him. Wc believe this fentence was afterwards thofjght too feverci as we find him almoft inflantly recalled 10 the .fcrvice, and appointed, on the lolh of December, to the Coicheftcr, a new fourth rate juft launched' He was . {oan after fent in this vellel to the Weft ladies, where he died on the 26th of February 1696.7. . WHITAKER, Jir Edward.— Of the early part of this fehtteman's fcrvice we have no accouut. Our firll inleL- gence concerning him is, that he was appointed lieute- nant of the Swallow on the i6th of Odlooer 1688; and |>romotcd, by lord J^artmouth, to be fiiitllctjtciiant of the Mary Li,u,i,;.du,Goo^It: HAVAL OmCtltS OF exlAT BRITAIN, 36^ Mary on the aSlh of December following, Having ■ferved fome time in this ftation he was advanced to bp commander of the Dover, of forty-four guns, on the Ijtl) of May 1690. During the tinie he was captain of thtg (hip he appears to have been principally employed as ^ cruifer in the Channel. The aflivity he difplaycd whjl^ ■thus emplwed met with almoft uncommon," though ijgi unmerited fuccefe. In the month of February 1690-1, being then in company with the Montague, commandct) by captain Foullces, he captured, after a chace of thjrtpefj hours, a very fine privateer of twenty-four guns, jufl fitteij out from Bred ; as he afterwards did fcveral o) inferior force. He was, moreover, particularly fortunate ip making prize of fevaral of the enemy's merchant-fliips, and in refcuing others belonging to tha allied powers, which had unluckily fallen into the enemy's hands, ^tjlj contuHiing in the fame Ihip, in the iponih of January 1692-3, he affifted captain Mees, of the York, in captur? ing two large privateers, oqp mounting twenty, the othe^ fixiecQ guns. Jud before this fuccefs, h^ had wh)l|^ alone, the good fortune to take one belonging to ^t, Matoe'E, callejl the Wiijcing Lyon, which mounted four; teen guns. ^ This diligence, and, what was flill more, the fpccef^ with which it was crowned, added to an high reputation which he had acquired for nautical Ikill, reommendet) him fo much to the notice of his fuperiors ia command, that, in the be^nningof tba year 1^93, he wasappMotc^ captain of the Royal Sovereign, under Mr. Aylmer, who hoilted his Bag on board that fhip as rear-adipiral of the red. }t is mod probable he continued in this jlatjoi) during the following year, when i|ie fleet was jii ihf Mediterranean under the command of Ruflet, for we ds not find aiiv mention made of him at home, whjch it is natural to fuppofe would have been the cafe of 9 man of ^is a£live diipofuiqn. Jn 1695, ;ind the beginning of the next year, he commanded, fird the Elizabeth an4 afterwards the Monk ; but without having the good for- tune t0 atchieye any thing wgrthy commcmoraiirg jij either, Soon after this time he removed into the ViAory, a (irft piXe, as captaip 19 lir C. Shovel, at that tiins v'ica-admira) of L„u„,.™o,Coogl^ 368 LIVES AND CRARACTiKS OP of the red. The peace at Ryfwic taking place in the following year, no mention is made of captain Whilakei till after the acceflion of <]ucen Anne •, when he was ap- pointed to command the Dorfetfhire, of eighty guns. This iliip was one of the fquadroh fcnt out, under fir C. Shovel, to reinforce lir George Rooke at Vigo: but thai valuable con queft being atchieved before Shovel's arrival, Mr. Whitakcr was only a filpnt fpeftator of vrhat had been done. In the following year he accompanied fir Cloudefley to the Mediterranean; in which fervice the only point to be recorded is, is having been thus em- ployed. He very narrowly efcapcd deliruction in that tremendous hurricane known by the name of the Great Storm. His ihip, the Dorfi;tlhirc, having ftruck thrice on the Galloper. It afterwards got off, fortunately, without fudaining much damage ; and, after having been driven about for a fortnight, m very bad weather, at laft got fafe into the Nore. The year 17°+ is produdive of matters mtich more interelling. Captain Whitaker, who ftill continued 10 command the DorfciDiire, was ftationcd in the line as one of the feconds to fir George Byng ; and being one of the commanders detached to aJTault Gibraltar, appears to have very eminently diftingulflied himfelf, and much contri- buted to the ledudion of that important pbcet. At the battle * ExCFpl that, in 1701, he wai appointed ma&er>a(tendin( of Woolwich yaiJ ; he, however, held lias ufiicc a few aionthi only. 4 The rollowing letter vu writlcn by him, on (hit occaGon, to 6r Richard Haddock. At 1 curioui and ori|;inal record of the great event it is primed vcrbacim, and may fcrvc 10 Ihcw how wcU the ac- count given by hifloriaDi agceei with the rcil faS. " On board hi* majcdiei Ibip Dorrctflure, in Gibralui bay, July the agth, 1704. " 1 here gi»e yeu an aceount of our good Tuccefi, erpecially wbw hat Tclaied to tny own particular part. July lid wc anchnred here in the bay, and about 4 in the afleiaoon landed abuai bodo marine^ Dutch ind all. I commanded [be landing with a captaini more, all w'ti was donvith liiilc oppolition. About 40 horre came duwnc from y' towue,' web wai all -■ and ibay run away foe foon as our guni began to play upon ihem. We landed about c milei from ye town, in y' bay, aiul mucbcd diicQly ID the foot of the hill, were ihar u,Goo^It: NAVAt OFFICKltS OP OKKAt BIfTAm. 369 battle oif Malaga he was equally fortunate : but from this time to the year 1706 there is a wooderful breach in our infor- pofted thenrelvei wiibin the mullielt Dtott afthc ntei, lo cott of tH MiiniKr of camniUDiciiion from the land. We Bore into y" town* Ihii evenrn^ about 17 Ifaclli; ind the prince of HcfTc landed with at ■nd immediitelji fcnt in » fummoni to the goveroor, to w*^ he did not re- turn any anfwer till ilie next Tnormng ; and then the governor faid be would defend the towne to the lafl. Then adml Byng, who com- mroded (be caoDoaading, began to draw up til hit fhipi in a line be* fere the towne, but It proving little wind could not get in wth ibeo^ all, (o thu we did liitic thii day. Thare was 3 fmall Qiipi in the olg. At 4 ihii morning adm' Byng began vi'^ hi eannomde, ■ Dnieh rear-adm' and 5 or 6 nupi of itiairt along wi' him* July ag. At 4 ihii morning adm' Byng beian vi'*^ hit Oiipi to* Dinde, ■ Dnieh rear-adm' and 5 or 6 nupi of inairt along W^ ftiin« yrci made a noble noire, being wiihin half (holt of the town. Mr being upon fervice, I delircd fir George to maki ^ducon, 10 carry t)ii lommandj, from tytne to tyme, to adm' Byng,' which he did accordingly ; and after about c hours continued firing, fcnt me wth orderi 10 forbear. Upon thii I went to every (hip in ib* line with ihii orrtcn: ahd coming on board captain Jumper, in tbd Lenox, found hitn extraordinary well poftcd, and with* niuflcci flkotl ofyc new mold head; and had beat them all out of the batteiy. ant off the mold; fo rhat I believed wc tnighi attack it with otir boitij 1 went immediately and acquainted adml Byng w'ti it, who ordeFed all y hoati to be manned and armed. From bim I went to Hr George, mud gave him my opplnion that the mo1dmi^hcbeatiaekcd> Heini' mediately made the Ggnal for all the ho3ii in the fleet, and gave. me y command of y' altacke, With '3 or 4 captiinea aloibg with bk. X made alt the hall I could, with ordcri to >(!'»' Byng to. fend me a^ tordiogly; but Tome of the boaii got iQiore, with little or no op* polition, before il could teach them. Severall of our men got into y" CaRle, upon which it blew up. We had killed beio 40 ud 50 men, (moll of «1I y* boat) that landed (irH were funk) about 100 or two Wounded ; upon w all y' remained eame running dovm and leapetl into y* water, being To mightelv Purprilcd. I landed within ■ miilutQ after y* accident and rallied o«r men Wc went overt breach iny* Vail, bni one at a time, and took t^Reltian of the hill. 1 immeoi. etely fcnt caa>. RolTy, and eapt A^oa, with about 40 and 50 men. In take poFTcFlion of a baAion tif 8 gani. within lets than htlf-mufkeit Iholt of ihe town Willi, ind there we pitched our eoloura. Soon ifier adm' Byng camr afliore to mc, and tent a drummer w>> me, *( ihe firfl oofet, bcivixcn two and ihrce hundred men; hit we grew ina veiylirile tymt lo neare 1000. Thitwai ihc rninnfr ' «e took Gibraltar, w^k I hope wc (hall miimain. I hope, Sr, youli cxcuCe (hit Etouble I give ; ^t believe ibai .every bpddy^ will right ati ibii tyme, upon ihii occasion. I could noi forbcare givins my very good friend, tir RIchaid, thit t>atiicuhT arcb* of y< w'holc maticr; which 1 don't daub; bui cap'. Haddockc will give nncb y fame ac- count. Pr^jr pleife to favour }ny Tpoufe w'* a line or tvo, fearing nine Ihould mifcariy. My. moll tiunibic fervice to my good lady and ally' cdbd family. I beg you'lemake ufcuFihii aifucn iiyou (hall tbidl Sit, it being ■ tiue account of the whole matter. " YoQT iBof harty humble ftn'ant, and *' kiofmati to ferve, " whilft " Ebwa»oWhitake«." " r.S. Tbii i> rite all In a hurryi Cr, y' I hope yon'le excufc me." The only poffibleohje£tion that cube made (othejulliceuidirutli of ihe forecoing account ii, ibai no notice appeara 10 be taken of raptain HicM, who certainly diftingBilbed faimfcif veiy much on ihii N. B. A palpable miflake hii been comoiiiied by Boyer, and all etheri vho have given any relaiign of ihii event, ifief having given ■he merit of this iianraQion lo captain Satnucl Wfaiiiker, who at ihat time commanded ihc Nottingham. Thii genileman wai no oiherwife concerned in the atiark than ai commanding one of the baitciirg Ibiptt Set boyer'i An. of Q. A. Vol. III. App. p. ^B. ' On _,.„,™:,.,Coogl^ KAVAt OPFtCGKS OP CREAT BKITAIH. 3)t On the afith of January 1 708, fir Eldward was advanced to be rear-admiral of the red, and appointed' to a com- mand in the fleet fcnt,,in the month of March, under fii* Jflhn Leake, to Lifbon and the Mediterranean. He hoiited his flag on board the Northumberland on the 30Th of January ; but nothing appears to have occurred, beyond the ordinary routine of fervice till the month of fia- giid ; when he was detached*, by the commander- in-chief, to undertake the reduiSlion of Minorca^ This conquefl he happily cfftfled in ten days ; and fo important a fuccefs is certainly of itfelf fufficicnt to eftablifh a com- mander's fame beyond the reach of envy, or malevolence of party abufe. , After the happy conclulion of that enterprife, he failed for Leghorn on the 29th of September; and by his acti- vity, joined to his fpirited conduct, had nearly difpofed the Pope to a formal acknowledgement of Charles the Third as king of Spain; when, at the prefling inllances of the latter, he failed for Barcelona. » This defire appears more like one of the puerile intreaties of an indecili^-e .mind, than as one of the firm, well-confidered rcqueils of a fovereign prince ; for his voyage to Spain was only a pre- lude to his immediate return to Italy, a meafurc owing to the fame royal interfcrance as the former. His arrival :at Leghorn completed that negociation with the fee of Ilome, which his former abrupt departure had compelled him to leave unfinilhed : and Charles the Third had now the fatisfadion of being, as completely fovereign of Spain, as the acknowlegementandbenedi£iionofthc Pope could make him. Sir Edward continued at Leghorn, and on the coaft of Italy, till the arrival of fir George Byng at Port Mahon in the month of January 1709, when orders were imme* r, 10 r»ak I id, when E e properly, Jefi bebind b^ him^with the chief 1 Grjohn (ultd for Engliod. According to (ome (ci^uunri (ir John wi> promoted to be vice-admiral of ihc wliitc on the ' eiQ or December 170s, and lo be admiral ii( the blue on the igih of December 1709. Olheri inrill he ncvei hid any higher rank ihaa '■- - - 'uiral of the white; l« which he w ■ . . of November in the iiliei year; hi* former promotibo beiof; 10 (he rank of vice-admiral of the blue. The laiiei account ii, undoabudiy, Ih4 true oat. A a a diately _,.„,.™.,.,Cooglc %"}! IIVES ANB CHAKACTEK9 OP di*tcl]r dirpKtched to him to repair thither with his whole iorcc, even Oiould he bt obliged to fail without the troopt, which were defined for the fervicc of the enfiiing year in ^atn. Sir Edward experienced many difficulties and delajrs b^ore it was in his power to comply with thefe orders. At Lift, about the middle of March, he reached Minorca with about 35ootroops. Their arrival afforded the fincereft fatisfa<^ion both to (ir George Byne and general Stanhope, who expe^ed them with the molt ear- Bcft anxiety. The city and callle of Aticant had long been befieged by an army of 1 2,000 men, commanded by that celebrated general the chevalier D'Asfcldt ; and was fuppofed to be reduced tolhe greateft extremity. The relief of this place was, therefore, to be immediately at- tempted; and fir Edward being accordingly (ent on this fervice with five fliips of the line, arrival off the place on the jth of April. The city itfelf had furrendered fome time before; and the befiegers had fprung a mine on the ajd ofMarch, which not only confiderably impaired the fortin- cations of the ca{tle, but had atfo, l}y its tremendous explo- fion^deilioyed major-gen. Richards, whowas the governor, sad feveral of the principal oificers. Nothing wa« left unat- tempted to fuccour the beiieged and compel the aflailants 10 retire. Unha^ily the (iege was too far advanced ; and the enemy fo well fecured, that thefe fpirited endotvours were withput^d*: all therefore that couM be donefai that exi- gency * The geneni hiving returned ihe leth of Mirth, N. S. to Bir< celoru, embarked again on the iDth, on boird fir Edward Wbitaker, wbowu airived tbere with 3,^00 mcfi from Naplei, thai were ordered to go upon ihi* expedirioD ■. then failing for Port Maban, they toafc then on hoMd 400 men more ; and on the 1 1 ih ol' April failed far Alicant, Ink a ftrong cifleily wind foiccd them to anchor in rhe bay of Oeaia; whereupon the enemy, Tufpe^ng cheir dcfign, aflembled all ibcfT tnx^ iboui Altcaiu lo prevent irt execution. On the 1 jih As flict arrived in Griit of Alicani; but ikc weatfaer eoritiaacd f* umpcRuoBi, thai the (bipi couM tuA Clime near ihe Diorc ; and baEdet, Don Fedro de Ronquillo Eiad by thai lime aOcntbled 7000 men, cat up inirenchmeDti, and ercAcd baticrici, to oppofe the landing of the canfedcrale tioopl. However, fooie men of war were onkrrd to g«t ( aa near ihe (hare » poSibIc and Arc aponifae enemy'i inti«nrhmenti[ whitfa they did with fbme execution, but wen: much annoyed by the fOUB'j'i buietiet, efpecidlly by one of Coot ibrty-two ponndcr*, which DolizodbyGoOgle NAVAt 0?FICEItS OF GltXAT BKITAIH. 373 gency.of affairs was to propofe to fiirrender the caRIc, on condition the garrifon fhouM be permitted to retire, Thefe propofals being at once acceded to, the troops were embarked, and fir Edward immediately rejoined the commuider-in-chief. He was quickly after difpatched to Italy to procure Oores and provifiona, of which the fleet began to be Ycry much in want. Having fulfilled his in{buAi(Hit fpecdily, as well as completely, hearriTed at Mahon, with liis fi}uadron, the beginning of June, bringing with hilfli a very' welcome and fcafonable reinforcement of two thouland recruits for the army In Spain. It was now propofed to attempt the reduction of Sicily, and the execution of it was to have been entnifled to ^r Edward} but the proIeA, which was both feafible and ^erious^ cune'to liothing, becaufe the Dutch either could not, or refufed to co-operate ; and king Charles was fo perpetu^ ally requiring detachments for particular fervices,- that i( Was impoflible to provide for them, and colled a (iifiicient force for other operations. Sir Edward, however, to make him fome amends for this difappointinent,had> iooa after this time, the good fortune, off Rofes, to capture lhirty*of tlie enemy's tranfports, laden with provifions; lirhich fervice not only caufed great dilVreTs in kiiw Philip's army, but enabled, by the unexpefled fuccour it afibrded the allies, that of king Charles to keep the fieU^ which, but for this, it would not have been able to nave done. > About the latter end of July lir Gewge Byng prepared to return to England ; and fir Edward was, a fecond time» left commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, with a fquadron of twelve Ihips of the line and four frig^es. He continued on this Aation till the latter end of March 1710, kilted fome men, ind did otb«< damage 00 boatd the Dunkirk. Tbe geneid tod admirali feeing ibe impoffibiliry of Tefievng itie cafflft, refolvtd, in a council of war, to endeivoar 10 fire the nrrifoa fraat bring madeprifoncrioFwaTt mhI, Kcardingl^, gcaend Smbopefent a btai on Qiorc with a flag of iruce, and therein in officer, wiih a lettar ~ ~ - ■ - [juillg, offcrina to fori ifQ. A ■ The Dutch wiiien aflert that ftft^ innfporri were tikcm, ud for Don PcJrodc Ronnuillg, otFerins to furrcodcr ihecafllcof AliciBt ■ .cJq upon honourable (ermt. Ann. of Q. Anne, vo). vHi. " "^^ " ' "■ that fiftf innfporri were t luce tlolci, bai ibu, uufann Aa 3 jmd ibitGr Edward propdfedioreducetlolci, bai Ibu, uufannaMcly, Ua advice wat not followed. Li,u,l,;.du,C00glC 374 LIVES AMD CHAIACTEKS Of Mid during that time very diligently performed all tiic fcrvice, the caution of the enemy, and the want of a nava! force in the Mediterranean tocontend with, would allow; but as thofe circumltances necclTariiy confine the detail of his operations to the uninterelUng, report of his having ikiled from one port to another with tranfparts or ftore- IhipE under his efcort, we forbear to recapitulate ihecn. . Suflfice it to fay, he arrived in the Channel on the tft of June ; and, we believe, never went to fea after this time. He foon afterwards retired on a penfion of 4.56I. 5s. a year; of which it is faid he was deprived on tbe acceffion of king George the Fird, and that complete political change which took place immEdiately afterwards. This extended eventothedifmiJIton of perfons, whofe long and eminent fervices, intrinfic worth, and noble condu£t juftly entitled them to the praife, friendship, and protec- tion of Englifhmcn of all parties j fo that the treatment is not tobeconfidered, as it would be in common cafes, a mark of infamy or public difgrace. I'he bite of any noMous animal entitles the unfonunate viflim to the cone, unde- corated by any epitaph, merely informs us of his place of burial. WICKHAM, Henry,— was appointed fecond lieute- nant of the Crown on the ill of June 1688. On the a3d of March 1690, he was promoted to the command of the Antelope. In 1691 he was nude captain of the J)iamond, of forty-two guns, and fent to the Weft In- dies.; where, in the next year, he was ordered to join fir ifrancis, Wheeler, fent thither as commander-in-chief. ^c was taken by the French on the 2cth of September following i and the circumftances of his defence not being ftichasdid him honour, orevcnjuftified him in furrendering, he was fentenced, by a court-martial, to be imprifoncd during life. After the accellion of queen Anne, the pu- nifhrn^nt he had already fufteredwas thought to have, in fome degree, expiated the fault he had committed. He was then releafed, but newr aflerWards received any upointment. 4 WILMOT, ..Cookie havXl ov?icexs of okbat mitaim. 375 WILMOT, Robert,— was, on ihc 19th of Auguft 1690, appoiotcd commander of the Hopewell firefliip; and was vf ry foon afterwards promottd lo the Crown, of forty:cight guns. This vcffel was employed as a cruifer ; and his diligence and aflivity, while in this kind offer- vice, procured him much fame as well as fortune ; no COBimander of that time having bien more fucccfsful. In 1692 he was made captain of the Wolfe, a (hip of war hired from the merchants, mounting forty-eight guns. He was fent to Virginia, and returned fiom thence, with a convoy, jn the month of December. H'lspromotionwas, in all probabilitj^, much accelerated by this good fortune which crowned his purftiits ; for, in 169"^, he commanded the Elizabeth, of feventy guns, one of the fhips belonging to the main fleet. He continued in this rtation till the year 1695, when he was, unhappily fur his general reputation, appointed commodore of a fmall fquadron fent to the Well Indies, It confilled of four (liips.of the line, a frigate, and twofireftiips. Hav'-' ing rcceived'his final inltru^ions, which he was ordered not to open till he arrived in a certain latitude, he failed from Plymouth on the 22d of January, having under his firotedlion twtWe tranfporls, with provifions, Itores and bldicrs. The land-force was commanded by a colonel Lillingflon; and an unhappy difference, which apjiears lo have nibfif^ed between him and the commodore, was a conliderable impediment to that fuccefs which olherwife would, in ail probabiliiyi h-^ve attended this expedition. It is difficult to fay with whom the fault originated, or oil' which, particularly, the charge of the mifcarriage ought to fall; moft likely on both. Colonel Lillingfton fome-_ time after his rcturo, being much offetidtd at the account given of it, by Mr. Burchet, fecretary to the admiralty, publifhed a very furious juftification, as he called it,, of himfelf ; in which he charges the latter i^iih having grofsly mifreprcfented the whole traiifa£lion, and, in the molt violent terms, attacks the chara>!}er of the dcceafed commodore. Without entering ii^to the minuiiK of the difpute, we have the following remark to make upon it, and objtSiuns'to enter againft Mr. Liltinglloii's Oate. ment.' Mr. Burchet was a man whofe peculiar and highly re- fpeSable ftation affor4ed him an opportunity of relaiiiig, A a 4, the L„u,i,z™^,Coo^Ic If* HVES AKO CMARACTtRS OF tTic iranfaSions alluded to, with more precifion than any other perfon in the kingdom could pretend to, except fuch 3S were aftually concerned in the expedition. Even over thefe he held one very manifeft advantage ; he could compare ihe diiferent accounts given of the faire tranfaftion by all the naval officers who were prefent at it, many of whom were far from being friends to the commodore ; and he could from thefc feparatc teflimonieS form a much more fubftantia! and honourable account than one which rcftcd merely in the pofiiive aflcrtion of an individual. To all this we may moreover add, that, notwlthftanding Mr. Burchet did not publilh his larger NaVal Hiftory till (ixteen years after the colonel had put forth his animadverfions, ne did not, in the fmalleft de- gree, retra3 what he had formerly piibliflied, or bellow the leaft notice on his antagonlft's publication. Lediard is of opinion this condufl, in fome degree, invalidates the ftrcngth and authenticity of Mr. Bur- chct's Hiftory: but, as for otirfelves, we are forry to entertain a very different idea of it. ■ Truth wants neither jlrgument nor literary proof to fupport it; it ftands alone: and the very appearance of defence, for a time, invalidates its worth and confcqnence. Its intertfted enemies may attempt its deliru£iiqn by mingling falfe- Iiood with It, for a time, imdcr various and fpecious forms; but the fire of teuton will at length confunie the . (Iroff, and leave the genuine melal perlett and pure. The conduft of commodor>' Wilmot might be, per- haps, in mary inllances ripri:hcnliblc ; but it, at leaft, argues unfairnefs to make foviruknt an attack on the charafier of a deceaftd man; an attack trtolly unfup- ported, except by the alTeriions of colonel Lillinglton '. Many of the points Infifttd on by that gentleman are mere quibbles on word;, and frivolous pretexts to quarrel with Mr. Burchet as an hiftorian, bccaufe he has lepte- fented Mr, Wilmot as commander-in-chief of the expe- dition : fo he was, being of rank, in the comparative * The colonel chi'gci the commodoic viih a breach oForden, io' OpeiUDg hit inHruQioni before the proprr limr limited for ihat pur- poie. He admix, however, thii no body wai pitfcnt ai ihii breach of duly bui the cominodorc and hmjelf. I'he commodore beii^ dead bi lute hit mmu^c ■ppeared, oobddy could CMiiadiA him aa ^ fcale DolizodbyGoOgle. NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. J77 fcale of fcrvicc, equal to a brigadier-gcneraf. But no reader, who urderftands any thing of tne rules of that fervice, would infer from that alTenion that Mr. Wilmot had a comuiiirion authorifing him to a£t as gcncraUin- chief by land. It is not our bufinefs or incTinxion to fbllow the colonel throirgh the reft of his animadverllons, which, principally turning on tranfadions and convcr- fations which took place between himfclf and the com- modore, who was dead, cannot polTibly be refuted by any evidence Olort of being miraculous. To refume the narrative — The ccMnmodore having arrived in fafety in the Well Indies, failed from the eld road of St. Ghrillophcr's on the 28th of March, for the eaii end of Hifpaniola, in order to form a jundion with the Spanilh governor of St. Domingo, who was to co- operate in thereduftion of the French fettlcments. Some time appears to have been loft in fettling pun£tiIios. I'hefe oeing at laft arranged, the combined force moved , forward to the attack of Cape Francois; which, although ' the alTailants were repulfed at the firft affault, the French foon thought it moft prudent to abandon and deftroy. It was , then refolved to attack Port de Paix ; and the French be- ing defeated on the night of the 3d of July, in a fally they made from the fort with five hundred men, the victors immediately took polTeflion of it, Upwards of one hundred pieces of cannon, a large quantity of ftorei, be- fides abundance of valuable plunder, and fome treafure, became the property of the captors. The divifion of this booty appears to have occasioned the firA difcontent on the part of the colonel: both, in all probability, were more avaricious than became men of honour ; for, from Mr. LiUingfton's own tale, he himfclf appears to have been, by no means, exempt from this foible. The dif- appointment he here experienced was the grand fource of all his difcontent ; and had it not been for this maUaf&c- tion of his mind, the commodores condud had, perhaps, palTed uncehfured by the public, becaufc it would luve been unnoticed. It cannot be denied but that every thing undertaken by the commodore was in the higheft degree fuccefsful ; and that the injury done to the enemy amounted, on colonel LiUingfton's own calculation, to a fum little lefs than two hundred thoufand pounds fterling. On a national groundi therefore, there was but little room for clamour : and if 6 . , - the L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc yji LIVES AND chara(;t£xs or . ..... the commodore had furvived, the public would have had, but little right to interfere in a difputc, which, ftiine fcvr particulars only excepted, was entirely of a private nature* Such part of the booty as was moveable, being fecurcd C»i board the Ihips ; and what was not fo, bein^ dcitroyed, it was propofed, by the commodore, to attack Petit Guavasand Lcogane. Xo this end the colonel was ordered to fend his ficli to Jainaica, and hold the remainder in leadinefs tpr the intended fervice ; but tiLiih^rhimfelf nor tbeSpanilh general thought the meafure proper or fLalible, on account of the great diminution th^ land force had fuftained by difeafe and cafualties, fo that the commodore had now no alternative. He, con femiemly,^ re paired to Jamaica, where, having refitted his fhips in ibe belt inaii- ncr hiscircumftances would permit, he failed for England on the 3d of Sepicmber with a part of his fquadroti, hav- ing- had the prudence and careful precauilun to leave three fourth rates behind him for ihc ptotedion of Jamaica, aiict a frigate for the convoy of a niimber of meichant-Qiips livhicn were then loading at that idand fur England. The fquadron encountered incredible hardlhips' while on its return. Bad weather and i:ojitrary winds length- ened out the voyage : and this unhappy delay caufcd the fcurvy to make fuch a ravage among the crews, that it was with the utmoft diffinuhy the ihips were brought into, port. Thofe who furvivcd the danger were alliamcd to attribute their prefervation to the interference of Provi- . dence, rather than their own exertions. The commo- dore himfelf lived not to fe^ the full extent of the misfor- tune, inafmuch as he died at fca twelve days after he failed from Jamaica. The difpulcs which we have recounted, and the belief that perfeil unanimity might luve been prodiiiSive or more fucctfs, Ihould form a lelTon to all future minillers, to ftudy well the private difpofitions of ihofu whom they cntrufl, as well as their courage, and general ability. ^WOOLGATE, Stephen, — was made captain of the Speedwell iircfhip on the 21II of July 1690, and died io the courfe of the fame year. ACTON. Li,u,i,;™u,_Goo^Ii: «AVAL OPFICEIS OF CKIAT BSITAIH. y^ 1691. ACTON, Thomas, — was, on the 28th of May 1691. appointed commander of the Cadiz Merchant, hired Ihip of war. In 1693 we &nd him captain of the Merlin yacht ; and are forry to be obliged to add, we have nof( after the moft ftrid fearch, been able to acquire any other information relative to this gentleman, except that he died on the cth of Auguft 1698. BAKER, John. — His firft commlflion in the navy, which was that appointing him lieutenant of the Wool- wich, he received from lord Dartmouth, on the 14th of November 1688. After the revolution, having ferved in the fame llation on board divers fhips with di^i^guilhed credit and reputation, he was promoted to the command of the Mary galley on the 12th of October i^Qi- In 1692 he was made captain of the NewcalUe, of forty-fix guns,' one of the fliips Tent under fii George Rooke, ia the following year, as cunvoy to the unfortunate Smyrna fleet. In 1696 we find him commanding the Falmouth, of forty eight guns, then ftationed as a cruifei in the Me- diterranean. He was afterwards, in 1698, commander of the Medway on the fame ibition \ and, in the month of Oflobcr 1699, was fent in this fhip to Tangier, to treat with the emperor of Morocco for the redemption of fuch finii(h captives as were in his polTellion \ but the fuccefs " of this negociation we are not acquainted with. Although ' the early part of this gentleman's fervice does not appear to have been marked with any of thofe brilliant atchieve- mcnts which have fo dcfervedly raifed fuch a number of his gallant cotemporaries To high in public notice, as well as popular favour, yet, his ferviccs appear to havejulUy merited every attention and honour,- which the llri&cft attention to duty naturally claim. He continued to be employed conflantly during the peace ; and foon after the accelliun of queen Anne was advanced to be capuin of the Monmoulh, of fcvcniy guns. This L;,Q,i,;.dD,Googli: 380 UTCS AHD CHAlACTEia Of This Hiip he coiDTnandcd as one of the fleet (ent on the expedition againfl Cadiz, and bore a very difllngiiilhed ihare in the nibfc:.uent atuck on Vigo, being one of vicc- admirat Hopfon's diviUnn, who fed the aiTatilt, He con- tinued, during the two foil o* (ilg yea r?, in the command of the fame (nip, firft under fir Clotidelley Shove! in 1 7e3» who was fent into the Mediterranean to attempt the re- lief of tbe Cevenois; and, in 1704, under fir George Rooke> The latter expedition will always be remem- bercd, as well on account of the capture of Qibrahar, a* tbe y'iOLoty over the French fleet off Malaga. In bodi ■bcfe very fignal fcrvices captain Baker bore a moll dit tinguiflied part; and in the latter wu fevcrely wounded. As foon as he had recovered, ho was iminediatelv re-ap- pointed to the Monmouth ; in which itiip he continued to ftrve till the month of January lyoy-S. Although the nature of the fervice allotted to hhn, which was always that of a private commander iti the main fleet, pferentetl him from ufing thofe more brilliant exertions neceSary to acquire unirerfal popularity and fame, yet, in itte milder duties of a commanderi which were thofs which fell vithin hit reach, it may certainly be in^ed he always ftood, we will not fay uoiiTallfd, but osdoubtcdly on- •xcclled. Thefe quiet. Gut at the fame time noft valuable qua- liflcations, recmnmendad him to tbe noike, attentionraMt Mendfhip of aH men:' andiwhite, on one hand, hit Courue proved experimemally, by the few oppontmitiet h* had of manifeftin^ it, cained their admiration ; fo, oA the other, did his humanity and benevolence jullly earn their love and elleem. On the d6th of January i7*7-8, lie was very worthily promoted to be rear-admiral of^the white. He was almof^ immediately afterwards appointed to fcrve under fir George Byng, who wai made admi- ral of the fquadron fent to tite northward to coonter- xQ (he invafion of Scotland, by the French, in favour of the Pretender. The rear-admiral was detached with a fmall fquadron to cfcort the troops from Oflend, which were fent thither, from the army in Flanders, to prevent this attempt of the French by land. He airived with his cba^t at Tinmouth, on the 3ilt of March, after a very profpcrous pafTage of three day^. The next fcrvice we fir4 L;,u,i,;.du,GoO^Ic MAVAL OFriCIBKS OT OXIAT niTAtlt. 381 find him engaged in, was that of convoying, from Hollatul to Spithead, Maiy-Asne, the daughter of the emperor Leopold) and betrothed queen of Poitugal. He after- wards accompanied her to Lifbon, under the command of fir George Byng, with whom he continiud to ferve in ihe Mediterranean, during a part only of the following year. Returning to England in the beginning of the fummer, he, for a fhort time, commffided a fmall fquodron in the Channel. On the iitb of November 1709, he was advanced to be nce-admiral of the blue. A little while before this he bad been appointed to take charge of a convoy of troopi and ftores for the army in Spain, as well as a reinforcement for the Mediterranean fleet, of which he was, at the fame time, appointed commander, as fuccefTor to (ir Edward Whitaker. Having joined that admiral at Mahon, he alTumed the diief command, on the departure of the for- mer for England, in the month of March. Intmediateljr afterwards, having under him nine fhips of the line, a frigate and a firefhlp, he conduced the feveral tranfportt ana fiore-Oiips to the ports whither they were bound; and on his return to Barcelona, when ofF the Faro of Meffina, he fell in with two large (hips and as many gallics belonging t© the enemy, having under their convoy m number oif faitecs. He immediately gave chace, and with fuch fuccefs that the two Ihips, onc'of them mounting fifty-fix gunfl, and a few of the convoy, were taken, the ^alttes and the remainder of the faitees making their efcape by the afliftance o(* their oars. Having executed his commiHton, by afterwards efcorting the tranfports to Sarcelona, he proceeded to Tarragona, where he put hini> felf, according to his inHruitions, under the orders of fir JohnNorrts, whohadjuft arrived from England with a commiflion of CQmmander-in>chief in the Mcditerra> tiean. * * Or ihic flation Mr. Baker continued during the re- mainder of the war, but with very liitie opportunity of diflinguiOiing himfelf in any way except by his diligence. In 171 1, when fir J. Jennings was Tent to take the com- Oiand in the Streights, he difpatched Mr. Baker to LifboD, with fix Ihips of the line and two frigates,' for the better proteflion of commerce on the coall of Portugal. - Having received _ „,.,,,.,.,Cooglc 38a tlVES AND CRAtACTCRS Ot ' , received orders from England to efcort, as far as Cafe SparteU a fleet of t ranf ports . and Store^hips, bound to Port Mahon, he failed on this fervice on the 12th, or^ according to Campbell, on the 8th of February 1712 j and on the i6th drove on (hore, near Cape St. Mary's, a very valuable Spaniffa fliip, mounting fixty guns^ TTic weather being very tempeduous it was too dangerous for boats to approach the prize ; and when it had moderated fufficiently to permit tnem, the captors, to their great dif- appointment, found it already plundered by the Portuguefe from the fhore. The Tice-admiral, of courfe, comphiined much of this ; and reprefented it fotnewhat forcibly to the court of Portugal, but without being able to obtain any fatisfa£tion, either from their honour, or their juRicc. In a few days after this he had the good fortune to capture a valuable French fhtp bound to Martinico 1 and having iiilfilled his inftni£lion3 returned to Lilbonj where tie arrived on the Sth of March. The fhort interval between this time and the peace at Ryfwic was confumed in convoying, to the Madeiras, the outward-bound Porlu|ruefe fleet, and in cruifing for the proteftion of that which was expe£led from the Brazils. A violent ftorm, which happened about the middle of September, prevented his accomplilhihg this fervice; many of his (hips being much Ihattered by it, and the fquadron blown fo far from its flation, that it was judged mod expedient to bear away for Lifbon, in order to refit. The celTation of honilities being procla'imed foon after^ the vice-admiral was onkrcd to return with his fbipi to England. . He had no other appointment during the reign of qtieeo Anne ; but, foon after the acceflion of George the rirft, wasappointed to command a fmall fouadron, fentintothe Mediterranean as well for the protection of commerce as to reltrain the depredations of the Silletines, who, about this _ time, began to be troublefome. He was ordered alfo to re- new the treatiesof peace with the reft of theBarbary ftatM. He failed on this fervice in June 1716; and on the i6tht a few days after he was clear of the land, was advanced to be vice-admiral of the white. He arrived at Tripoli on the 2d of ^uly ; and having included, in the renewed treaty of peace, - the Minorquins, the recently acquired fubjefls Liuiiizcdu, Google KAVAl. OFFICERS OP GKEAT BBITAIN. 383 Tobjefb of the king of Great Britain, he failed for TuniSi where He was equally fucccfsful as a n^ociator. The Sallciiiies were not To eqiutably and pacihcaiiy difpofed.: the vice-admiral was obliged to have rccnurfe to comptil- live meafures; and his own aflivlty, aflilled by the gal- lantry of the privste> cumaianUcrs under him, were not longincompellingthat peaceable demeanour which pirates are always loth to obferve. Having thus happily fulhlled the whole objedl of his expedition, he was preparing to return to England, from whence rear-admiral Cornwall had been jult before fent to relieve him, when death, ever regretted, when putting a period to the life of a gallant man, but particularly lb when he is, as it may be (kid, prematurely fnatched in the prime of life, clofcd the ho- nourable career of this brave and good man* on the loth «f November 1716, he being then in the 56th year of his age. BEER, John, — is, from the fimilitiide of name, fup- pofed, by fome, to be the fame gentleman who com- manded the Cygnet as far back as the year -i66ot. There is, howtver, no other proof of this, except that fimilitude, and the circumflance of his being put on tlip fuperannuated liiV 4s early as the year 1694. On the other hand, it is very extraordinary that a gentleman fliouid ever return to a fervicc which he innft have quitted upwards of thirty years. The only information we have been able to collet relative to tiiis gentleman is, that he * Lediard makei tbe followinE juQ and bonnurable remark on bit dcaih : " The lor* of 'idmiial BArr wai very much bmenied, be bc> iiig an officer of confummatc fkill and experience." A fpleiidid monumcni, bearing the following inrcription, ha» been erefted 10 hii memory in WellmiDftcr Abbey., MS. To the memory of John Baker, efq. Vice-admiral of ibc whin fquadron of ihe Br itiih fleet; • ' Who, when he commanded in ihe Pycd ai Port Mahon ibe lOih of November 1716, jEt. 56. He wai a bnv*, judjciaua, and experienced officer; A Cnccrc friend, and a true lover of his country. Mioel pod funcra virlui. i See vol. i. p. 8. '■ , was \ . L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc 384 tlVES AHD CUAKACTERS OF was appointed commander of the Rofe guard-fhip on the 57thof January 1691*; and having been, in confequence of his infirmities, put on the fuperannuated lift, as before lelated, died, in an advanced age, on the 23d of Sept. 1696. BIBB, Edward,— was made captain of the Hopewell firethip on the 19th of January 1691. About the latter end of the following year he wis promoted to the James galley, a frigati of thirty guns ', in which vefTel he conti- nued till the month of July 1693, when he was advanced to be captain of the Wincjielter, of fixty guns, one of the flrips belonging to the main fleet. Early in 1696 we find him captain of the Monk, one of the Ihips composing the fquadmn under (ir Cloudefley, and employed, during that Ipring, in defultory attacks on the imalier Frenctt ports. He continued in commillion till the time of his death, which happened on the 2d of OSober 1701 ; at which period he was captain of the Monmouth. BRIDGES, John, (id)— was, on the rjth of September j6qi, appointed commander of the Portfmouth. In the Jblfowing year he was promoted to the Centurion, <^ ibrtr-eight guns, and employed as a cniifer off the eaftem coalt of Scotland. In the month of Augiift, being then on the fame ftation, be fell in with fix French privateers, which he very rcfolutely engaged for a confldtrable time ; at lafl the Kmgsfifher, a frigate employed on the fame llation, hearing the report of the guns, came to the abid- ance of the Centurion ; and through this well-timed aid three of them were captured and carried into Orkney. He continued to command this (hip, and on the fatne llation, till the year 1694) when be was made captain of the Deptford. He was immediately fent on the Liflwn ftation, where he met with confiderable fuccefs as a cruller. He returned (o Kngland in the following fpring, and unfortunately died, and in the very prime of life^ on the lOth of M^y enfuing. CLARK, Richard, — was, as early as the year 1666, made lieutenant of the Houf^ de Swieten, a fhip of war, taken in the preceding year from the Dutch. On the commencement of the fecond Dutch war, in 1672, he * He fioiiiiDiicd to commind iliit veBcl till ilie time of hit ftiper' WIS DiailizodbvGoO^lL: fi; KAVAL OtPIClRS Ot CRtAT SmTAIK. 38J was made firft Heiitenant of the Triumph ^ and in the. following year of the Henrietta. He does net appear to have had any commiinon in the ruyal bnvy alter this time "till the year 169I, when he was, on the 5ihof Ja- nuaryt appointed commander of the Swififurc. 7his fliip appears to have been lofl a Hiort time afterwards { and there is no account of captain Clark's bci> g re-ap- ited to any other Ihip till the iDonth of July 1693. was at that time made captain of the Humbcr, of eighty guns,- a fliip attached to the main fleet, andftalioned in the fine, during the remaindtr of the fummer, as one of the feconds to rear-admiral Kcville. He continued in the (amecommandforaconfiderable time, moftprobabi)' till the conclufion of the war. In the beginning of the y'ear 1696 we find him in the Mediterranean' under commo- dore Moody. After the peace at Ryfwic he continued to command fomc (hip of the line, but neither its name of fbtion are kn and was principally employed as a cruifer, or in the convoy of fmall fleets of coafters, particularly thofe bound to and from Newcaftle, and the ports adjacent. In 1694 he commanded the Dover on the IriOi ftation; as he did, in the following year, the Harwich, employed in the fame fervice as the foregoing. After the peace at Ryfwic he was put out of commiilion, and was no more employed till after the acceflion of queen Anne. He was tlien appointed to the Norwich, and fent to the Weft Indies : but having been unhappily guilty of irregular and improper conduil, was brought 10 a court-martial on the B b 2 j6lh DiailizodbvGoOglf 3^8 UVIS AIID CKARACTIRS 0» l6th of November 1704*. TIic charge apainft him being proved, he was Tentenced to be difmifled thi- fervice. He was afterwards reftorcd to his rank ; and, in the year 1710, made captain of the Arundel. No other particulars are known relative to this gentleman, nor even the time of his death. ELWES, Gerard,— was appointad fecond lieutenant of the Lyon on the aad of November 1688. Having ferved in this Nation on board feveral Ihips, he was, on the 19th of January 1691, appointed captain of the Hunter firefhip. In 1693 he commar.dedthe Royal Oak, the fhip on board which Ut George Rooke hoilted his flag when he cfcoried the unfortunate Smyrna fleet. After his return he was appointed to the Sunderland, of fixty guns; on board which inip we believe he contintKd till the conclufion of the war ; when he was removed into fome other (hip of the line, whofe name i^ not given, although he continued captain of it during the remainder of king William's icign. On the accellion of queen Anne he was made commander of the Prince George, of ninety gum; on board which fhip vice-admiral Piopfon hoifled his flag at commander of a divilion in the fleet, fent, as it is welt known, under fir Geo. Rooke, on the expedition againll Cadiz. In the following year he was appointed to the Royal Oakf a new Ihip'of feventy-four guns, and went, * Ai 10 the (ifih hnd of the mcrcbani'i cotnplainn concfiniDg tljcir bard ufagc, iu having ibeir men impreft out of ihcir Ihipi in the Well Indict, u alfo upon iheir return home, by ihe capriini ef tbe qiccn'i Oifpi, to the rtij great lofi and danger o( iheir Ibipi and Bttt- cbandizr, (tveral inHaocei wcrr laid before ihdr lordlbipa. The Gould frigate, Joliah Dowell maRer, arrived in Jamaica ia September 17031 and, whilft he went lo wait upon the govcmour, tapialn DongUs, (rf die Norwich, impreffcd five of hii belt fcamcn. The miller waited on ihe explain and Qiewed himliii proteflion; bui Dougtai tuld the mailer be had iweniy-fiTC fnmcn, and fail orden from tbe adrairaViy were to prefi every fifth man ; and tboagh lb« ■ufter ac^uaisKd him thai fome of hit men were fkk, and thai b* leally wanted men 'o fail his Aip home : yet he could Dot prevail but for OIK feamin; ibe captain lethng him, if he would, he could iik« ■way all hit men; and tlireaitned to flophii fhip dnieft he wOald pajr bin ifae wagcaof ihe feamcn be had fo imprcfled — Ann. oFQ. Ann*. We hne infcried the above injullice to prince Georse'i chanfier, and to prove the charge made againft him, of difregardtna the com- fdaiau •£ the people, it, at Icafl on fome octaGou, «ci7 iu fouDdeij, witli Li,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: KAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT XRITAIN. 389 with fir Cloudcfley Shovel, to the Mediterranean, where a multitude of concurrent circutn {lances, taking from the fl«t itfclf all poflibility of efFefiing any confequential or even memorable ferviceagainit the enemy, we are not to be furprized that the life of a private commander fhoald be totally barren of incident. In 1704, continuing in the fame Hiip, he was prefent It the memorable batllc ofF Malaga, in which he enfl' nently dil^inguifhed himfelf asone of the feconds to rear- admiral Dilkes. He had in this engagement fifty-ihrcc men killed and wounded ; a lofs which fufliciently provei bow (Irenuoully he mull have laboXircd to encounter the enemy, when it is recolleded the weight of the aftion fell only on the commander-in-chief's, and fir George Eyng'a divifions. He continued to be conrtantly in commifEon till he totally retired from the fervice: but as he alwayt commanded large Oiips which belonged to the Mediter- ranean fleet, which had no opportunity of efFefling any brilliant fervice after the battle, off Malaga, we have no- thing to relate except the information of his having been fent hoRie commodore of a fquadron of eight ftipsof warj with a convoy from the Meaiiernlncan and Lifbon, in the month of December 1707. He at this time commanded the Revenge ; and we can only lament, that To very trivia) acirciimilancefhould fupplythc place of a more mtered' ing recital of fome biilliant exploit, which his ill fortune^ and the concurring circumflancesof the fervice, in whicl^ he was engaged, we are perfeftly convinced, from th* general tenor of his conduu, were the only Impediment^ t(k his atchieving. We believe him to have retired from the fervice at thii time, as he was Toon after appointed fuperintendant at Plymouth, an otKce long Hnce laid afide. Some have alfertcd he was, in the year 1714, made commiflioner of the viflualling^ but this is, undoubtedly, a miftake, nor docs it appear what became of this gentleman after the time above-mentioned. EVANS, John, — was the younger fon of George Evans, cfq, of Ballygrenane, in the county of Limeric. His family was originally of Welch extraction ; but John, the father of George Evans, having removed into Ireland jibout the year 10i4t his fon, who fervcd in the army B b 3 during L,u,i,.™u,Cooglc 39° LIVES AKD CHARACTERS OF during the rebellion of 1641, acquired a very confiderabld eftate, as well by a grant of lands under the a£l« of fci- tlement, as by purchafes made from divers perfoiis, John, of whom we have to fpeak, was originally intcndeil for the profcflion of the lavi'. He h d a conHderable landed property fettled upon him by his father, comprif- ing the caltle and town of Miltown, together with other valuable polTetnons in the county of Cork. Having en- tered at Gray's Inn, he applied himfelf afliduoufly to the ftudy of his profeflion till after the revolution, wlien he fudtienly refolved to enter into 3 naval life. The fingu- larity of this circumftance, or his powerfnl intered, or, perhaps, both united, procured him, immediately on his engaging in the fervice, the command of the St. Martin, a fixth rate of twenty-four guns. In the year 1693 he was removed into the Richmond, of tweniy-fix guns, and fent to New York, where he moit probably continued fome time, as we find no farther mention made of him during the remainder of the war : and it is certain he never had the command of any veflei larger than a fifth tate till after the acceflJon of queen Anne, when he was made captain of the Dreadnought, and, as it is fatd, fent to America in the year 1704.. In the month of Auguft, having then in company the Faulkland and Fow^, he atHlled the former in the capture of a French Ihip of war, mounting fifty-four guns. In 1706 he was promoted to the Royal Oak, one of the fleet employed, during that year, in the Mediterranean. He had now an opportunity of fignahfing himfelf, which he did in a molt remarkable manner, being one of the captains cominanding the corps of feamen, under fir John Jennings, which were ordered to aflift in the ftorm of the city ot Alicant. He was the jirft man who entered the breach ; and being quickly fup- ported by the reft of the people as fall as they could get up, this fignal conqueil was effecled with as much eafe as • a moft trivial enterprife could have been. Thecondudl of captain Evans on this occafiondeferves the greater Qiare of applaufc, inafmuch as the exertion was made in a line of fervice he had been totally unufed to; pnd, moreover, he had the difagreeable mortification of feeing the land forces, who were intended to have made »hc firft attack, abfolutely checked and driven back.. He returned Li,Q,i,;.du,GoogIt: NAVAL OFFrCERS OF GREAT BRITAIH. . 39I returned to England, with fir John Leate, in the m©ntl\ of OiSbber; and we have not been able to collefl any in- ' formation worth inferting relative to his tranfaflions,' or fcrvice, in the following year*. In 1708 we find hinf again in the Mediterranean, under fir John Leake. He at this time commanded the Biirford, a large third rate." After the fleet arrived in the Mediterranean, and fir John Leake had, in the month of May, determined to fail for Italy, captain Evans was left commanding officer on the coaft of Catalonia, with a fqiiadron of feven Englifh and Dutch (hips. On the return of the fleet to Barcelona, it was determined to attempt the conqiieft of the illand of Sardinia: but the land-forces that could be fpared from, the fervicc in Spain being inadequate to a fervice of fucb magnitude, a regiment of nine hundred volunteer feamenj from the fleet, was formed by way of reinforcement, and captain Evans appointed to command it ; the fpcedy fur^ render of the ifland rendered however his fervice, in that line, unneceflary. He reidained on the Mediterranean ftation, we believe^ as long as he continued to ferve, but not in the fame fliip* for, in the year 1710, we find him captain of the De6< ance; in which veffel, in the month of November, he maintained a very gallant fight with a French (hip of war. It lafled from eight o'clock in the morning till twelve at noon, and with much flaughter on both tides, the Deflaoce having had twenty-five men killed and fixty-five wounded^ and the enemy having laH upwards of one hundred. The rigging and fails of the Defiance being much more (hat- ' tered than thofe of her antagonift, (he was unable to pur- Aie the advantage (he had gained, and the Frenchman had the good fortune to (belter himfelf under the cannon of Malaga. This is the laft material information we have been able to colled relative to captain Evans. He is faid to have com- manded a fecond rate ; but this circumflance we have been unable to afcertain pofitively. We believe him to have to- tally retired after this time from the fervice, and to havedied without ilTue on the i5thof March 1722-3. His nephew, * The moft materiil ii, that towardi the clore of the veA- be vu commodote of a craifing fquadion in the Channel, coDE&ing of tea Jhipi, B b 4 Ge(>rge, L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: ^3 LITIS AND CtlAXACTERS OF GeOT^, wa», in the year- 1715, created lord Cafbery of lhcd to undcnake, and Aill fewer would have folicited. Let not therefore po- ilerity fuffcr this great man's noble deeds to be any longer depreciated by injurious calumny, or his character deprived of that well-deferved fame which ought ever to prcferve the memory of the juft and brave. MANLeY, Francis,— was appointed lieutenant of the York on the 1 ith of OiSober 1088. He was promoted to ihe command of the Roebuck fircfhip on the i^ih of January 1691.- He was afterwards promoted to the Swan, or Sun Prize, a velfel Rationed, in the year 1693, for the protedion of the mackrell fiflicry. .In this fhip he was * He Btftied Btiiget, only diaahier •odbcTTiafirTbomuHvde, of Korh MyoM, in thecouniy of Heritbid, bin. At die time olTlii* dcccife be w» lord licuicnint and cuftoi romlorum of ihe counij' of Yoik i into which office be wai fwom on the tgih of April 1713, t " The miiqui} of Carmirthen hiving offered 10 go wiih ■ fmall fquidron of Qupi of wir 10 Midagaftir, 10 fupprcli ihc pintei (here, «bo were become very iroublefomt and dti^eioiu 10 ibe njviptioa in ibofe pirii, the common* appointed ■ commiiicc to caofider ilnt awner."— Ticdal'i CanuaaMton, Ann. 1716. vafot' Li,u,i,;.du,Goo^Ic HAVAL OFFICERS OF GKEAT SKITAIH. 40t unfortunately taken by the French, after a vci7 gallant refiftance. During the aflion he receivea fcveral wounds which occalioned his death, while a prifoncr in France, on the 15th of June in the above year. MAYNARD, Francis, — was, on the 154 of June 1691, made captain of the Afliftance. He was, not long after this time, removed into the Mordaunt, of forty-two gims, and Cent to the Weft Indies, where this veflclwai unhappily loft, off the ifland of Cuba, on the Zi(l of No- vember 1693, and the captain as well as the whole crew peri died. PARTRIDGE, Robert, — was made captain of the Thomas and Elizabeth fireffiip on the aSth of May 1691, and is faid to have ^een killed on board the Griflin, which he commanded, and was alfo a fireftiip, on the 9th of July 1692; but we have been totally unable to invefligate any of the particulars relative to nis death, whether it happened in afiion, or otherwife. FOUND, Thomas,— was, on the 5th of Auguft, ap- pointed commander of the Rofe, of twenly-two guni, a pfize taken fome years before from the Salleiines, and now, by corruption, whimfically called the Sally Rofei ^e continued in this veftel, which wjas ftationed as a cruifer olf Dover, and the coafts of Kent and Sulfex, tilt the end of the year 1693, when he was removed into the Dover Prize ; from which (htp he is faid, verv erroneouflyi to have been difchirged on the 8th of Auguft 1694. "We have been unable, after the ftn^eft learch, to diuroverthe caufe, as well as the precife time, qf his difmillion : but we know him to have commanded the Doi-c'r Prize, at that time on the Irifti llation, at the very latter end of tfa* year 169;. To this we^caii however add_, that after hff ^id quit this (hip. He never again reti^med to the ferrice> The time of tiis death is unknown. PROWTHER^ar PROWER, William,— was, im the 2ijl.of July 1691, made commai\derof theSaudadoes Prize ; ia which velTcl lie contimied till the end of, tl^e year 1693, when he was promoted to' t^e Anglefea. la this fhip, which was pr^cipally if not ?'holly employed as a, cruifer, he met witn conliderable fuccefs, as wdl againft the commerce, as the private armed Ihips of war belonging to the pnemy. |n the nio;ith of Oflober 1604, he fiS io Voi. II. . Cc with L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 402 ttVES AKD CHABACTXKS OF with 3L very large French privateer, mounting, thirty-cighf ?;uiUr ^Icd the Saint Louis, which he captured, after a mart engagement of an hour's continuaDce. No fatther mention is made of him in the reign of William the Thirds he not havingbecn employed, during the peucr, after he quitted the Anglefca. On the accemon of queen Anne he was made captain of the Yarmouth, of feventy euns, one of the Ihips fcnt out on the expedition againit Cadiz ; axid died in the (ame command on the 17th of April 1703, being within a few mouths after the retmn oi the fleet into port. . PUGH» Ricrard, — was made lieutenant of the Ameo ]ope, by commifiion from king James the Second, dated the 9ih of September 1688. After the revolution he Cirvol on board other Ihips in the fame ftatron, being If nt to the Weft Iivltes under commoddrc Wright, by whom he was promoted to the command of the St. Paul lirclhip. After the arrivaf of commodore Wrenn, who was fcnt to take the chief command on that l^ation, he was advanced to' be captain of the Norwich ; wtiich (hip remainine in the Welt Indies, was unhappily cart away on the 6th of Ofiober 1693. The commauder and al! the crewpe- liOiinf with her. RCTOK, Thomas, — was appointed lieutenant of the Adventure, by admiral Herbert, commander of the fleet in the Stieii!;hts, on the inh of Feb. 1681-2. After this time we find nothing relative la him, till he was, on the 4th of March 1601, appointed captain of the Blaze £rcfi)ip. In the following month he was removed into the Hunter, a veffcl of the fame defcripiion; and, in 1694^ Was made captain of the Fubbs yacht, a fpccics of ap. no intmcnt "little calculated to promote renown. Having held the fame flation to the time of his death, on the 20th of May 1701, it prevents our having any thing more memorable to record of him, than his having, at different times, attended kingWilliam to and from Holland, SHEERMAN, Thoma!,-^was appointed commanfer of the Spy firelhip on the 19th of January 1691. In the following year he was promoted to the Tygcr, of forty- two guns, and lent to the WeA Indies, under the com- mand of fir Francis Wheeler': from this vetfel he wai, fooB after his returo, adnnced to the Mary, of tixty gunr,, 4 one Li,u,i,;.du,Googlc NAVAC OFFICERS OF OKEAT BSITAIH. 403 one of the (hips belonging to the main" fleet. After the pii!ace St Ryfwic he was again fent to the Weft Indies, wKerc he died on the ijih of June 1699. JHORT, Richard, — was appointed lieutenant of the Eiiropa hired fliip of war, on the 30th of April 1678; after whfch time we hear nothing of him for a very long interval, till we find him, on the t6th of April 1691, appointed captain of the Blaze (irefliip. In 169a he was Sromoted to the Nonfuch of thirty. fix gtins; in which lip he was (l^iioned, during the following year, at Bofton, ^ in New England, toother with captain Fairfax, in the Conceptioii Prize; for the protefiion of that coaft, • He <]utrtea this veflel, on his return to England, in 1694 ; and we have no reafon to believe was ever appointed to any other {hip. He died on the 27d of May 1702. SOANES> Jofiah.— The firft iniormation we have been aWe to colledof this gentleman is, that he was made <:aptaiA of the Vufcan firefliip on the 23d of February 1691. In this veflel be continued till the month of July 1693, when he vras promoted to the Jamei galley, a fri- gate of thirty-two giins. This vel&l, we believe was, not long after this period, fold to the merchants; and captaiA Soanes retiring for a time from the king's fervi aher LllQIIIZcduyGOO^IC 4^4- LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF Halca's the admiral ShiAtd his flag on board the Humbcr. This was rallier an unfoniinatc circumUance for capbiin .Soanes, who was unhappily betrayed Into an error in jtidgu^anc while die fleet was on its palfage *, which fub- jefied him to cenfurCi notwithdanding it was, Honcflly 9>eaking, occaftoned by his too great eagemefs for tha Icrvicc o( his country. Sir Huvenden re-hoi(Hng his flag on board the Edgar foon after his arrival at BolTon, he appointed Mr. Paddon* a much younger oiBcer than Mr. Soanes, to command the Edrar, and rcnioved Mr. Soancs into the SwifcAire, a lljip of the fame rstc. It therefore evidentiy appears, that he had not fuffered in the opinioa of his admiral, tfttf the elorcfl invEOintlon. Ir mai thaught ntcefliry, (bour thii (tmc, to make Cotne dillinBian uf nuk bcniMeo ofiiciiri who roiq- miniciJhuriA nici jod upwardi, and ihufc who were nptaini of/H- jja'ei oi veffeli of inferior tonfequtncc. Thofe only who were ofthe trft clifj were intitled to iheii flig in the courfe of feniariiy, ind c^tiin Soinei never having been ippotnied, till long ifter ihc iccef- 6tni of <|uwn Anne, to »i>r veflel lirgcr ihm iba Jamei galkji, a tti- nte of thirtj'-lwo gUMi ur Hovenden Wallur, who comiiwadcd ■ ftip of ihe line even before the peace at Ryfwic, became hii fenior * bakard the lofi of -the lli'«i in chafing, upon any pre- tence whatbever, captaivBiiiler. in the Dunkirk, tad captain boaocL in the £dgar, chafed, -thoMgb they were appointed to repoM all the iignala I made for the beticr keeping lOEriher the great nuinber of ^ranrponi; aru) the Dunkiik never juinrd ui till we Ibuttd bet at Niniaflter^-f[tfE*Jpi^*tB(lee(tn'6ilieJl ulUcxt day. ■ *■ Thii I illouGht I'o f real a breach of otderi and difeipltrK, thai I hakeved.myfeK obliged -to call ihofe two captaini to anfwcr for what (key f)ad done at;* tourt'manlal ; tlie fentcnc^i of which I herewiik fend, -whereby copnio Soanei waa'lineil, ani-captain Butter diliniHi;4 not- DiailizodbvGoO^IC NAVAL OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. ^Oj notwllhltaniting he had, in fome degree, fwerved from ihe Rn& letter of his dmy. Thp aci.mint of the faiturC'^ the Canadian expedition more properly belongs to 'ill* life of fir Hovenden Walker, fo that we (hall not talcQ any notice of it in thispljce. He does not appear to haM held any commillion after he returned to England ; and, in Ihe year 1718, retired altogether from the fervice, being amwinted lieutenant-governor of Greenwich ho^itaL Thia very hoomirable flatioti he enjoyed till the hour of his death, which happened on the loih of Sepfcmbor 1 737 ; at which time he had attained a very advanced age. WARREN, George,— was, on the 19th of Septeiftbor 1691, appointed commander of the Pembroke, xfrigatt of thirty-two guns. He was immediately afterwards fent to the northward to convoy, from thence, a fleet of Oillins. He had the good fortune to capture, dirring his paf&ge^ a French privateer, together with a prize (he had.jull be- fore taken. He continued to be employed in the fame line of fervice, though without experiencing the Ttko fuccefs, till the end of the following year, when be wm fc7it--to The Weft Indies, uiRlcr the cmnmuid i>f-fiv Francis Wheeler. He unhappily diedthere'on'tfaeaoth of April 1 693, being foon after his arrival on that ftation; WRIGHT, John,— was appointed commander of th* Cadiz Merchant Brelhip on n» 29th of Jum l^Xf and died on the 17th of Odober fbilowing. 1692. ALLEN, William, — was appointed captain of rtip Tyger ,on the ill of July 1692. During u^ following fear he does not appear to have heldany commiffiM, wff IS any mention made of him in any oflbcial papers wba^ «Ver till the year 1694 j at which time he comiiiatx)«d the C c J 'Sauds- DiailizodbvGoOglf 4o6 tlVlS AND CHAKACTEKS OF SUudadoeS) or Siudidoes Prize*; tt dots not diAindly appear wiuch; nor is it at all material. He was pro- moted foon afterwards to the Bonxdventure, of ftfty gunSf Knd f^nt, in the month of May i696,toHudlbn's fifty, in Mmpany with the Scaford frigate. He rencfcred a very valuable piece of fcrvice to his country during this expe- dition, by recoverinei from the enemy, York fort, iui4 Other fettlements on Hudfon's Bay, which they had, f {horf tiepc before, made thcmfelves mailers of. He was on hii teturn to England t, and almoft entering the Channel, when he fell m with a large French private fhip of war, mounting lifty guns : it was in every refpc3 equal, in point of force, to the Bonadventi^c, having formerly been a (hip in thcEngliOi navy, and then called t^ie Mary Rofe^. An engagement confequenlly enfued ; in the cour(^ of which xaptain Allen, who conducted himfel/ wit^ the utmoA gaifantry, received a delpcrate wound, of which he died in abcHit two hours. The Bonadvcnture having .un- fortunaKly received fome conHderablc damage in tier fails and rigging, the enemy made their cfcapc. * The Uiler ^t* cerliinly ihc fliip hr cotnrDiaded, la app^ri from tbe lolloving letier, dated from on l^aid ihe vefTcI, July ihc B/th, 1604. Tbe relation it too bonouribic to ihe memory ol cipuin Allen tobeomicied. ■ -"On'tbc«jJ,eniifin^ofri.tHogue,incompinT with thcHind pink, we efpled, In the aioiiiin|t, fix fail, which proveii to be French mipit one ■ Irigate of iweni]' fix Of thirty i;uni; three of ihcm privatecn, ftom fixieen gtin* downwardly andiheo'hcr (wo merchant -Qtipi, of one hnndrrd and cightv torn each. They all Dood into Grinton bay, where one of the merchani-fhipi ran aftiore, aboin three milcifliOTt of tbe refl) bul (he wu.fclcbed off, and rirried awav by two pri*atecr> of GuerDfey, while we engaged the enemy, whith we did for 'fin or feveo houii: ai Iffl ;ifaey all put their fhipi ai^round, and lefi ilieml We feni in our boali in hope] )□ ha«c burnt ihcm ; but the ffaore wai fa lined, triih borfeind foat,iIiai we could not effc&ii. TIk e^ib, ilt the morning, wk efpied five fai4,' and flood after them : they proved to be Enj^lifb, under conToy of the Swallow Prize; upon which we returned tnu> the bay, and found that four of the ■boBe-mcniuned FreiKh Diipi mere got off again, and wertfailing dole Itnder the IWc. We give tbem chale till t(ight, and the next mwi^ng wcntliack to the hay; whre, with our boati,' we burnt the other merchant. ffaipi, noi- ^itUbading they Ered very^annly frotn tbe Iborc |o defend ber," t On the HI H of November 1696. - { Captured by the eneiDy fomi BARKER, D,Q,i,;.du,GoogIt: HA.VAL OFFieiRSOytiKCAT tKlTAm. 4^7 BARKER, Jedidiah, — was appointed captain i^ the St. Vincent iirefliip on the Z4th of June 1692. He re- mained in this velfel a confiderable time, moll probably, till the year 1695-, when he was promoted to the Lyon. During all this time he does not appear to have had any otmortunity of diflingiiilhing or rendciit^ himfelf con» qtlcuous, out of the common routine of fervice, and re- ^lar duties of his office, in the fidlowlnz year he was advanced to the command of the Stilling Caflle, a fliip of leventy guns, and Tent home, ^rom the Streights, com- mander of Hie convoy ordered to accompany a fmatl fleet of mcrchant-ihips bound from Cadiz to Et^land. During his palTagc he fell in with a fquadron of French Alps of war, irom whom, by his prudent as well as fpi- xitcd«c»idud, he had addrefs enough * to proted his whole charge; * In juftice to ikit very brave tranriaioa we bave ibooBbt il iu- caaibcni oa ui id inreri ibe following pariiculir weeoaat of it. " May the 7(b, 169-. On the B^th of ihe Uft moDtb bii aiiK- fly'( Ihip, ibe Stirling Callle, ciptain Birket commtodcr, viiib (lie Berwick^ ind Jofcph Rrcfhip, Uilcd from St. Antonio, bound to England, btving under ibeir CDDvoy eleven fail of merchant. Ibipt, viz. Six EDglilb and five Dutch, befidei the Britannia viaualler and a Frenrh pnac, laden 'from Mariinim, whicii caplaio Baikct took ob- tbc I Ath a! March in bit voyage outward. " On the agih, in tbc morning, being about 60 leagues to tbe vcQward of Si. Antonio, we faw a fail to windward bearing down 10 Ul; to whom the Berwick fjive chafe, and came almoft up with her about noonj at whicb time three fail more appearing in light id windward, ■be Berwick, opon a Ggnal from explain Barker, gave over cbaTe and aetumed 10 the fleet. 'I'hole tbtee Oiipi joioed the otber, and ifaen all- four bore down 10 UI, and To kept ui company all night. Tbc next murning wc faw anoibarfail »-llerD, vho alfo joinwl toe fborfonncri and all of ibem came up near io us; whereupon we Ifacwed our cokNin, and tbey hotted French colourt. Several ftgnalt were Made an board the commander of ibem, 10 whom tbe other Oiip'a baala went very fre<|uenily. We got in readioeli to engage ibem; and captain Barker madi-afigoal forfoui' of the largcfl mcrchant-lliipa to didw, with ihe Berwick, into a line of battle. About noon, the enemy^ coufaltaiioni being ended, tbey all Eve bore down to u* wiibin gun-DKK : two of tbem were ibipi of about fevenry guni each, the oihct three carried fifty, ihirty, and twenty goDa. Captain Barker fired leverai fliot at them, and parikuUrly ai tbe conmaBder, who thereupon immediately luffed up without gun-Out. Tbey continued 10 keep ui company till ihe ftd laflant, when, being about ten leagnca ' 10 the weflwatii of Uftwot it four in the moming, lod the Fiencb be- Cc 4 ia$ D,a,l,;t!dbvG00^IC 4«fi . 1,1VE8 AND CHARACTCItS Ot durgc ; an a3ion fully fufficient to ellablifh his future renown. He continued in cominiRion during the whole peace; and, in 170I1 was fcnt to the We A Indies as com* muidei of one of the (hips belonging to admiral Beribow's fquadron. He died there on the 12th of January 179a, before the comroeoccment of hoftilities with France. BOWLES, Phineas, — was, on the jilt of March 1692, made captain of the St- Paul firelhip. He did not long remain in this vefTtl, being promoted early in the following year to the AITiltance, of forty-two guns, and fent, in the month of June, to Newfoundland, with a convoy. In 1695 he was captain of the Lime frigate, » vcflel employed, during the autumn of that year, as a Cmifer in the Channel. In this occupation he w» very a3ive and fuccef&ful, having captured many finall priva- teers, and'refcucd ftveral prizes which had fallen into their hands. In the month uf Deceinbet he was fent out in this hnx veflel as one of the convoy, commanded by commodore Moody, that was to attend the Turkey fleet. Gn his return from this fervite, in May 1696, he was ad- Yar.ced, in the enfuin^ month, to the command of the Loyal Merchant, a (hip of fifty guns; and was, not long afierwanis, removed into the Norwich. In this (hip he was Tent to the Well Indies, where he unhappily tell a viftim to the climate, which, about that time, proved fo fatal to fuch a number of his cotcmporarics. He died on the 4th of November 1698. faig towindwird md having! frcOi gilc ii rouih, thfy ■!■ bore down ^■in limofl wilhin.fpiD-fiiui of ui; 11 which lime ihrre fiil appncing in Eabt ihud of (M, iwo of which llood 10 the wcQwird. ind ihe other to ine eifiwird; the lifl wii > heich, ind we fuppore I'prize. The £*£ Fiench brought .10 illetn: one of ibc mhcr rwo, which were ahead and Qood to the wellwtrd, being k Ifaip bciwrea twenty and Airtr gnnl, when Oic could fetch dj lackrd, ind flood aibwxrt ni, fliewiiig an Englilh cnlien, and deligning, u we ibouf^hi, to fjwik with «t; but when we fiw fhe would go from m, ihc Berwick fired three fliol It her. However, flie got tviy and flood to (he other 6*e| •rhoin, havins Ipokc wiib, ibcjr ill laid by a conGdcrable time ; and Aen Making (ul, flood to the wcftward : after which we (aw them no , BWie, and made ihe bed of otu' wav homeward. On the gd in* SiDl, c^BJn Barker, with the Berwick and firclhip, and all the Bier< cknt-finM abofe-mentioned, irrived at Scilly." BRAITH- DolizodbyGoOgle NAVAL OFFICBRS OF OKBAT XKJTAIM. 4«9, ERAITHWAITE, James,— a defcendwit of a very refpcciablc family in the county of Weflmorelancl, was, ODthe6lhof December 1693, maije captain of the H^wke firelhip: on the 6th of January following he was pro- moted to the command of the RefoluiiDn, of Cxty giuis, on board which Ihip firF. Wheeler had juft before hoifted his flag as admiral of the fleet bound to the Wett Indi^. Captain Braithwaite died there almoA immediately after his arrival. BRITIFFE, Charles, — was made cgmmaader of. the RuITcl, of eighty guns, on the 14th of June 1692; and, very Toon afterwards, of the OfTory, a fecond rate. Hb continued for a ihort time only in this fliip, being foon after fucteeded by captain Lealce, and lemoved into the Portfmouth, a frigate of thiny-two guns. In this v«l]cl> which, after the return of the main fleet into port, was employed wholly as a cniifer, he had the good fortune, ia the month of November, to fall in with and capture, ffter a fmart a&ion, a large privateer belonging to St. X^oe's^ called the Hyacinth, pierced, as well as the Portfinouth* for (hirty-two guns. In the month of July 1693, he was appointed captain of the Crown, si fourHi rate. After which time we have no intelligence' relative to hitn, except that he commanded the Chichefter in the bediming of the year 1696 ; and was difmiifed, foon after that time^ from the fervice, but for what particular reaCHi is i>ot roen- tioned. He never appears to have been reioftated, Mtd died fome time in the year 1703. BROWN, Nathaniel,— was appointed commander of the Falcon frigate on the 17th of March 1692 j and being fcnt, early in the following, year, under fir Francis W!ueler, to the Weft Indies, died there on the 28th of June enfuing. CONSTABLE, John, — was made captain of the Katherine ftorelhip on the 14th of November 1692. He was, early in the yea^* 1694, promoted to the Shoreham, a new frig^ate juft launched. In this command no man could have acijuilted himfelf with greater propriety, abi- lity, and fpirit ; qualities, to which the latter pan of his conduct, as an otticer, very ill fuited. When employed as acruifer he was diligent, fpirited, and alert; and when occupied ia tht; charge and proteflitxi of merchant>fhips commit- L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 4ae^ ' LIVES AND CKASACTfiM OF commuted to his conyoy, was pnident, attentive, and ptrciimrped. He continued captain of the Shurchasn. tilt the end of the year 1696, when he was promoted to rome fliip of the line, whofe name does not appear. The peace being concluded at Ryfwic, in 1697, his ftip was put out ofcommtirion, and he was not again employed till the year 1701, when he was unfortunately appmnted-'captain of the Windfor, one of the ihips fcnt 10 the Weft Indies, under vice-admiral Benbow. The melancholy event of which expedition, as well as the cir- ctunftances which led, and conduced to it, have been already given at length in our account of that very brave and enterprifing commander*. - It is necelTary, however, in juftice to captain Conftable, toreinark, that, nolwithftanding his conduct was, in every nfpe&, fcandalous and dilhonourablc, it was not fo infa- mous and criminal as that of captains Kirkby, Wade, and Hiidftin. Acquitted of the charge of cowardice, he was only fentenccd to be cafhiercd and imprifoncd during tiie queen's pl&afure. It is aimoft necdlefs toadd, nothing is ktioWn c^ Wnn after this time, except that he was fent home prifoncr to England. CORNWALL, Charles, — the dcfcendant of a very lefpcfiable family long fettled in the county of Hereford, was appoiRted commander of the Ponfmouih- floop on the l6th of September 1692. In this velTe), which mounted OBly fixtecn guns, captain Cornwall continued, in all' probability, for fome time +. We have at lead a very ex- traordinary, if not unequalled infiance in this gentleman, of its being poflibte for an officer to ferve, with the moR: irreproachable charader, and to attain a very high rank in the fervice, without ever having it in his power to encreafe his reputation, by any of thofe brilliant exploits which fortune throws in the way of her greater favou- rites. We muft, indeed, except that in'i694 he commanded the Adventure frigate; and having been fcnt, with admi- ral KuHcl, to the Mediterranean, had the good fortune, in the qinnth of November, to capture two very valuable fllipt bound from Marfeilles to Lilbon. He alfo • See p»ge =35 et feq. * And we believe wu re-appointed to the Cune vefli;!, or 10 the Bridge-water, iftcr ibe acceffioQ of queen Aune> bore L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: KAVAL OFFICEtS O* CXEAT BRITAIH, ^ir ^re a conridcrable and diftinguilhed part in the a£lion^ with (lie Content and Trident, which took place in the month of January following*, and was immediately Afterwards promoted to the PlTinouth, as fucceiTor to captain Killegrew, who was killed in the a£tion above- mentioned. Wc find not, after this time, the fmalleA mention made of him, either in hiftory or any of the private or official -documents we haye beei) able to procure, till the year 171 1 ; at which time he had ferved nearly twenty years as a commander in the navy. The information we have, aven at this time, is almoft too trivial for inrertion,excq)t on the ground that all biographical particulars rife, tnfup- pofed value, in proportion to their fcarcity, Mr, CornwaQ was, at the time above-mentioned, captain of a Hiip of the line on the Mediterranean ilation, and cntnifted widi the command of the convoy appointed to the homeward- bound Turkey fleet. After the acceflion of George dw .Firjl, in 17I4-) he was made comptroller of the Hdtc- keeper of the navy's accounts, as fuccelTor to Mr. Jen* ntngs, who retired with a penfion. He held this ft^on two years and then returned to the fervice, on beine ad- vanced to be fear-admiral of the blue, on the 16% of June 1716. On the 24th of July he was ftill farllier promoted to be rear-admiral of the red ; as he was ^ain, on the ifl of Febmary following, to be vice-admiral rf the blue ; and on the 15th of N^rch, to be vice-admird of the white. Previous, however, to his latter promo- Vions, he was appointed to the command in the Mcditcr- ranean, in (he month of October 1716, as fucceflbr to ViCe-admiral Baker ; being at the fame time invetlcd with the high chara£lcr bf pienipoteniiary for concluding a peace with the emperor of Morocco. ' He hoifted his flag, on this occation, on board the Argyle, of fifty guns, that (hip being thought of fufficient force and beft adapted to the fervice on which he was fent, which was merely to punilh the infolence, and relVrain the depredations of the Salletine corfairs. He continued conftantly and diligently employed on this kind of fervice till the arrival of ur George Byng in die Mediterranean, • See pfge gsg. L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc 412 i.tVES AND CHARACTERS OP Vitha ftrong fleet, in themonthof July 1718; when Mr. Cornwall, according lo his inllrui^ions, joined him with bis fmall fquadron, and taking ihe command of the fe- conJ> 01 van divifion, Oiilled his flag into the Shrewfbiir/, of eighty guns. "Wc have fome reafon to believe he had either removed his flag into the Butford, or was not prefcnt at the well-known aflion with the Spanifh fleet off Cape Paf&ro ; the latter we are rather inclined to believe, not withltan ding, in Mr. Corbett's account of the Sicilian expedition, as well as in Campbell, he is exprefsly faid to have aScd as admiral in the lecond po/1, having bis flag on itq^rd the Shrewfbury. The line of battle given in Lcdiard, which wc believe Jo be the inoft correiS, as it agrees beft with other points, differs naaterially from thofc we have already mentioned. The van divifian ts, indeed, faid to have'beca under vice- admiral Cornwall ; but, from the circumftance of captain Walton being detached, in purfuit of the Spanifh rear- acUniral Man, with ttiat part of the fleet which was pro- perly uorfer Mr. Cornwall, we are inclined to thint he yias not prcTent ; and arc rather {Irctigthened in this be- lief, Crom not finding the lead mention made of hitn, by ■jfir, George Byng, 10 his accoimt of the engagement tJliided to. Immediately afterwanis, however, he Ibifted fiJs flag -liack into his old (hip the Argyle, and was detached, by jthe admiral-in-chief, to convoy the prizes back to Mahon. After having fulfilled this mflrui^ion he repaired to Xilbon, raoftprobably on account of his health, which itad long been in a very uncertain, precarious fUtc, and now proved paft recovery, the vice-admiral dying there on thcjrth of November 1718. EMMS, Fleetwood, —was appointed commander of the Extrav^ant firefliip on the 13th of January 1692. We have not been able to coUcifl any circumftances re- lative to this gentleman, except that, duriiijg the ctiurfc of the war, he was promoted to fome Ihip of^the line, and continued to hold the fame honourable charge after the peace at Ryfwic had taken place. After the accefKon of Sueen Anne he was made captain of the Relloraiion, a lird rate. This (hip was one of thofe unhappily loft in the Great Stomi, which happened on the 26th and a7th i^ November in that year, being driven) by its violence. L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: HAVAL OI-FICERS OV OREAT BRITAIH. 413 on the Goodwin Sands, and the captain, as well as all the crew, peri fliing with her. FLETCHER, John.— The firft appointment we find this gentleman to have obtained was, to be captain of tlic Britannia, a firft rate ; the Ihip on board whicn the com- m»nder-jn-chief of the fleet always hoifted his flag. This commiflion was dated oh the ift of Feb. 1692 : he confer quently was prefcnt, and in a very eminent Dation, at the flotious vidlory, obtained over the French, off La Hogue. le was properly the commander of the Hiip, and entmfted with the direflion of it, being what is called fecond cap- tain'- He continued to hold this flation till the month of Jnly 1693; afier which time wc believe him to have <^ained no commilTion till the end of the year 1695, when he was made commander of ihe Elizabeth, of fcventy guns. He moil probably continued in this ihip till th« peace ; and was, after that event, appointed to Tome other ihip of the line, of which lie continued commander dur- ing the remainder of king William's reign. After the accedion of queen Anne he vras appointed again to the ftation of a fecond captain, being made commander of the Royal Sovereign, a firil rate, the fliip on board which fir George Rooke hoiftcd his flag as commander-in-chief of the fleet fent on the expedition againfl Cadiz. After his return from thence he was removed into the Royal Ca- iherinet; in the command of which Ihip he died fometlmc in the y*aj 1 704- FOLJAMB, John, — was, on the 20th of July 169a, appointed commander of the Unity hired fhip of war. He continuedin the fame vefiel during tlie following year, and was fent out to the Canaries, We have no iniorina- tion of him after this time till the year 1703, when he was made commander of tlie Pendennis, of foriy-cight tfuns, except the knowlege that he commanded a ihip of the line towards the latter end of the former war, and the peace which fucceeded it. The lift adlinn of his lift levls pofteriiy to lament, his gallantry had not a mu<^ * A nnk ^i fl«iion fiiti pnferved, and mofl vir«l)' too. The firfl npuio bein^ an alEDani in the gnnd icdc of fcivicr, to ibc coinn)«ivleT-ip.cbteF, in the minajjemeni ind direflion of the fleet. t He niciptainof thit fhip at ibe time CGarlM, kinsof Spiin, wat carried ID Lifbon; on which occiEon he w» prcrepied,l>y hit majeOy^ «ithb)cyifiu[eletwJd)diainondi, mdapurreoronebandredguiiKM.' earlier L„u,i,.™u,CoogIc 414 LIVES AVl6 characters' OF earlier and more fortunate opportunity of difplaying itletf in the fervice of his country. &ine attacked by a very fupcrior enemy, he defended himfelf with the utmoft re- folution as well as pmdent conduit j nor did he yield up his command till the Jhattered ftate of his Ihip, tlie flaughter of his people, and his oWn weakiiefs, from the repeated wounds he had received, rendered him perfe£tly incapable of making any farther refiftance. He died in a few hours after the Pendennis furrendered. This un- happy accident took place on the 20th of Cf&obeT 170s- GRANTHAM, Caleb, — was appointed commander ofriic Warfpight, of feventy guns, on the 13th of Janu- ary 169s- He was prefent in this fliiu, and greatly dif- tinguilfied himfelf in the engagement oR La Hogue. He continued in the fame Ibiion during the following year, when fortune did not afford him any fimilar opportunity of difplaying his refoluiion and gallant - fpirit. The Warfpight needing fuch repairs about the conclufion of this year, as made it necetlary to put her out of coihmif- iion for a time : and a life of inaflivity, efpeciaUy in time of war, ill fuiiingtheadive temper of captain Grantham, he accepted, in 1 694, of the command of the Falmouth, a fourth rate ; in which he, foon after his appointment, ac- companied admiral RulTcl to the Mediterranean. White on tnis (tation he diltinguifhed himfelf in the mod fignat manner *, iq the engagement between the light fquadron^ under the command of captain Killigrew, and the two French IhipT of war, the Content and the Trident, which ended in the capture of the two latter. His gallantry was, immediately afterward;, very pro- perly rewarded, by admiral RiilTel, with the command of the Content, the largcfl of the two prizes. As foon as this flijp was refttecf, which was done by the latter end of * " It WIS fbtit ia ttic-aficrnooD before e4 villi that commander, to England, in the month of Oc- tober. We have no account to be iJepended upon after this lime, whether he eyer held any commiffion or com- mand. He is fuid, indeed, bv. many, to have died captaiit of a fhip of the line, in the £!a(t Indies, in the year 1699. This we are certain is a miflake, for in an official MS. lift of the naval commanders, we find him returned as alive, aiiA holdiit? no commiflion, in the year 1699. It ts, moreover, well known that he died in England, but Ja ■what year does not appear. GRIFFITH, Richard, — was the Ton of captain ■Richard Griffiih, a naval commander in the rei^ of Charles the Second •■ He was appointed commander of the Mary galley, of thirty-four guns, on the 22d of April [693. He continued captain of this Ihip during the ■foltowing year, being principally employed in convoying the trade 10 and from Lifbon. He Accompanied adminl RulTel to the Mediterranean in the following year, we believe, as captain of the ElTex; and, in the month of Augull 1695, was appointed to the Trident, of fifty guns, one of the ihips taken juft before by captain KilligreWS Kght ftjuadron. He returned to England, with the fleet, in the month of Oftober ; and we hear nothing farther of him till the year 17031 when he commanded the Bridge- water, a enuring fhip on the Irilh Ration. He is faid, by fome, to have taken poil only from the 27th of April ■ 1097 i and his commanding fo fmal! a (hip as the Bridge- water at this time, feems rather a confirmation of this fup- pofition : neverthclefs, the many concurrent teftimonies we have of the contrary, forbid us to admit it as a truth : tat if the above fuggeftion is the faft, he mud have con- tinued an afting captain for five years before he was ad-" tnitted to take poll ; a circumftance, at that time of dav exceedingly unufual, if not totally unprecedented. Some lime , after this we find him captain of the Swiftfure, a third rate; in which (hip he was appointed, having the War- fpight, of the fame force, under his command, to efcort to Lilhon, a convoy of fourteen fliips, in the month of February 1706-7. They unfortunately ftll in, very foon after they had cleared the land, with a French fleet of fixteen or-feventeen fllips of war, which were acciilentally, and • See Vol, I. p. 834. . unknown ..Cookie 4li LIVES AHD CHARACTERS OF uoknown cither to captain Griffith, or miniHry^ on their saflage from Brell to the Wed Indies. A few were coif feqticntly captured, but by far the greater P^rt, both in point of numbeis 2nd value, happily efieAed their efcape. Prince George of Denmark, at that time lord high admiral, and thofe who weje of his council in that cap»- city, were very far from being popular. Every trivial mifcarriagc was fwelled, by the extravagant embellifh- nient of party rhetoric, into a national misfortune, which, by being frequently repeated, mu(l at lalt produce its ruin. This accidental fuccefs, thercfoi*, of the enemy formed ^ Erincipal ft'£tion in the addrefs prefented to the qiieen, y the houfe of lords, on the 2i;th of February 1707-8, relative to the mifmanagcmcnt of the navy. The prince's anfwer to this r^rt of the charge was perfe Sly exculpatory of captain Grimth ; the misfortune being charged, in the cver-prcvailinetoDcof truth, to its true caufes, unforefcen accident and the want of information, that fo powerful a force WKE at fea. But the clamour of party was hot to he fo ealily fatished. In a replication made by the houfe of lords, to the prince's anfwer, captain Griffith's was chared with not having kept company with a Dutch fquadron of ninelhipsof war, under admiral Vandergocs, bound alfo to Lifbon ; with having loitered his time away negligently off Plymouth, and with not having crowded more fail to get away from the enemy's fleet, when ha firn defcried it. Thefe feveral points were mere raked aRert ions of crimi- nality, totally unfupported by anything like evidence: but admitting them for a moment to be itriflly true, none of them attach in the rmallcfl degree on captain Griihth. To the firft it may be fairiyanfwered, he did not keep company with admiral Vandcrgoes, becaufe it was not a part of his inflniftions that he Ihould. To the fccond, that h« re- mained off Plymouth no longer than was necefTary to coilefl his convoy. And to the third, if he was flow in making fail it was becaufe he entertained not the mofi diftant idea, that the fleet in fight was that of an enemy. Of ail the offences that can polfibly occur in the condud of an olhcer, thtjfe with which captain Griffith ww charged, on this occaCon, are leaft Uktiy to be true. ^ Want 6 L;,u,i,.™u,CoOglc MAVXt OPMCIRi or GSIAT BtlTAlR. 41^ Want of refdlutionj an unhappy negligence, qt adRakCf pay roDictimes be. foundi becaufe tney are among thoGt unfominate defers to which human nature is liable. But in the prelcnt charge there i< implied a wil&l and pcrvctfe criminality which reaToti revolti at crediting, be- taufe « prcceden,t it; fcAxpsi wanting of its ever having ejtiftcd. ... Of this opinion was the couit-martial, h^ at Liibon^ to (liquife into the condu3 of captaib Griffitn^ Honour- ably acquined, he was reftored to his taak and com- mandj as well a^ to the good opinion of all catidid, ,un- ftfejudiced men. He faOet] for England with fit- Ciou- defley Shovel, and the Mediterranean fquadrbn, iti the nionth of Ofiobcr^ and happily efcaped the deftni&lon in which that brave comnUnder^ together wnh.feveral fhips of fiis unfortunate fquadron, weie involved. It is not kilown whetfaer he ever was appointed to a (bipafter this time: op the contrary; indeed,' it is believed he lived ever afterwardi ietired from the ferviee, and died about the year 17 19. HARTNOLt, John,— was, on the 3d portunities of diflinguilhing himfelf, as a private captain, than, probably, ever before fell to the lot of any fingle per- fon. His fim commifliqn was that of fecond lientenant of the Refolution, which he received from the lord Dart- mouth, at ihat'time torn mander- in -chief of the fleet, oa the a9th of November 1688. Having lerved afterwards with didinguifhsd reputation, as lieutenant of various ihips, he was, at lafl, promoted, on the 17th of February 1692, to be commander of the Hopewell firefhip. In the following year he was captain of the Sfudadoes, of lixtcen guns, one of the light vefTels belonging to the main fleet. He was, in the month of July, promoted to Uie Adventure, of forty-four guns^ a Qup, though of aaucb uvCoo^Ic KXVAL OFFICERS OF OaBAT BStTAtH. 4i^ fitpcrior force, emyloysd In the fime Ube of feivice u th« former. Hie diligent attention to the duties of his ItatJon pro- cured hiin, in 1694, a liitt farther piomolion, to be cap- tain of ^ Weymouth, a fouith rate; a eonunand, ii| vhich he quickly acquired the greatefl renown. Being oil a crliile off the coaft of Ireland, in the month of June-j In company with the Mcdway, at that time cocimandca by Mr. Dilkei, they fell in with a very large privat* Ihip of war, belonging to St. Maloe'a, called the Invinci^ ble*. The Weymouth being by far a better lailing fhip than the Medway, began to engage the enemy at two o'clock on the naornmg of the 17^ of June. The In- Vincible ufed every polTiblfe endeavour to efcape, and had Jo far the advantage, in poi nt of fpeed, that the Weymouth was unable to clofe with her tilt after a ninping ^ght. which continued till eight o'clock at Aight. The Invin' cible's main-U^-maft being then luckily carried away, tha Dunkirk was enabled to join the Weymouth in the at- tack, which the enemy prudently prevented by an imme- diate furrenderi On the 31ft of the fame mbnth, aftera very long chac*. tie look a fecond, of inferior force indeed tn the firllt^ but little Icfs confequentiat in a national point of view, as it had done incredible mifchief to the cotnmerce of the allied powers, and wx efleemed one of the be{l failing veflels thai ever put to feai On the 3ifl of AuguA foU / owing he took a third, mounting twenty-eight guns* The captain of this vetTel being a man of moft daring Ipirit, and having a chofeii as well as numerous crew 10 uipport him, did not furrender till after a defperate ac- tion, in which he had thirty of his men killed, and twenty-live wounded, the major part of them mortally. Having received intelligence, about the middle' of Sep- tember, of a fleet of fliip^ being fcen off tlfhant, captaia Jumper heOtated not a moment in putting to fea. io fearch of them, and fboni afterwards overtaking them, he was unhappily dtf>ppoinied 111 finding them all neu- tral ihips, bound indeed to diAci'ent ports in France^ but Which> from the nature of their cargoes, jhfc laws df ' * Cirrying fifty-feur guTiiand ihreehuDilftdaiui fgityatM . t MouaUDg twtniy-fwir (Um. L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc %i6 itVti Ai(D CHAIACTKKS OF hidoaii aAd titattes thai cxifHng, foriiade him to aaki prize of. On dw 23d of the fame moiitli he waa again equally tmfortunate ; for having, during his chacc of a larg* French fhip*, carried away both his fore-top-maft and fbre-top^gallant-maft, his antagonift deriving couragfe from this misfortune, tacked and bore down upon him with much appearance of refolution : but on captain jumper receiving littn with a broadfide, didlking fo rougn a fs^utation, he again betook himfclf to iaunMiate Bight, which 6ie dtfabled ftate of the Weymouth ren- Sered our Englifii commander incapable of preventing. ; The Weymouth Ixing employed, for torat months ^fter this time, in convoying the fleets to and from Ire> land, wc find hothiitg very interefting relative to this gentleman till May 1095, during which month he cap- lured two privateers, bne of fourteen, die other of flxteen ^ns. On the 19^ of July he fell in with another large privateer belonging to St. Maloc's, called the Count Kcvelle, pierced for forty-eight guns, diough having only - Tht igthi in At tfttmoani 1 fiw ■ Itil to feevrani, btrHreek ilie .-laad ofOlcMuieud'S&.MBrtinij MttuI, ohd uhdcr<>oad,.ii/aBrfca]r piivaLcfi'i of J<>t ^i|isL'Wh4iii E Ippkc wiib, (hit ii vtt. a Frenol. ium of wtr; and tbit flic/c were fpycfil pthcrt cruiling, iltqiB ihe Cbore, "iclWMii B'dlTe ffle aiiS Hourdcau;!, whctfupon I,crpudc/[lil to Icp- "wtr^ lo'iiim, rilmmin^ my f^ili uA a Vfind ihoiuh' 1 «,*cpt t^for; if, thtt'U AMId AoI'dmovA' loy Iquafe' ytrds/kcefimg in* head lotiTm, awbeiabhgBJittle jnv ieinciiincs'id SicwuijibeacbMii^a: Hb ■ ' " -•■■■■■'■ ' -" •■ ,»odte i^'Hood _, ,_ .._ . , ^„.jt til ihe •^Wigi}»teoaiA^n-^t^t{oTiirptlth''. the mm oFwtr,-^ (nrn- (jon^.^qpfnngKnv-j 6irtlF^c(i nw, and nwidc Giil off flipre; tmt I oul-rajled him, and wem cWe under hii lec^Qdc. My B^jo-yai^ biulbine bii mam-&rgwds, wc nfked him whence he cami: t and lold 'ihti Wc wf^c'froBi Brtfl, "md he anr»et>d frgm Sochrort. 1 "kf pi mf ■Wnch eafi^a flyia^ t« prevent hi) (rrhig at mjr mafli till I «u near 3ciiaugh j: tfaaspw Ai[t ifaci^nglUhenfi^n Mid poared a brM^tide in hin^ MoQof t^C^ot yeu«iii,on ibc oiber Ciit, killed odc lieiiio^at fn4 eleven mtai we wQuntjeddcfpcra^cl/aimany marpl the capuinliiin- ftlf being ftol in (he bellj. I brKed'my malji-uip-r>il ahaek; and Vehn Mlf ibe odier round was fired ihe French Aruc)^, being cpUcq l,^Attrott,t£§i»obfoit, iheking'iOiipt one year old, in the nature of .«nr pUejii.canyiog iweoty gnat cnithe [ipperdeck, none on the Jower dec^ but four on the quarter decji, ^)id between 0eci(t fotall poru foTOtti, being tlic bell failer If Vermel wiih bvawiotj. H^viag fecarci] (he prita laiade ready For ibe piher, but he Wtke^ about a V>iU and a M)f from me, and ran la the fleet before-mentioned. I then made a fig^al for the prixe to follow me; and wc chafed tbc fleet, which ftood In, aod gftt iota St. Mariin't kfSart we could reach ibem, t took ihli (hip Four Icagfiei S. W. from the headland of OlqoDO, where (he had Deen watering two dayi K-Fore, The oiher wu a (hip (>f tweaty 0UU UJcewile: and the fleet I uodarftood came ftom Bou^ fhvtx, with a convoy of forty-fix gunc. 1 lay therp three dayi ^ter, batconU'M nothing, escepta row-boat, in a ciimf who wai fcot IJt ftnov vhu ve werF, bvt would wrt come ixaf ." Aqne^ J -,i,z<,i:,., Google »AVAt onxctts or g»eat surrAm. 42j Anne. HewasthenmadecaptainoftheLenoxioncofthe Alps fenT, under fir George Rooke, on the expedition againllCadiz4 in which attack he, perhaps, bore a greater part than any other naval commander, being ordered to cannonade St. Catherine's fort, and cover the landing of the troops : a fervice he completely executed, and with the morf fpirited addrefs. In the following year he ac- companied lir Cloudefley Shovel, to the Mediterranean; and lome time after the fleet arrived on that ftation, was detached to Scandaroon with a convoy. He came back to England in the month of Decemfier; and in the fol- lowing year, (till keeping the command of the Lenox, again returned to the Meditcmnean with the fleet under fir G. Rooke. The brilliant fuccefs which crownedthis expedition is well known j and in every operation the ■ braverr of captain Jumper was (ingularly • confpicuous. After tieing moft eminently inflrumental to the reduSion of Gibntltar, he fignalifed himfelf no lefs remarkably at the lattle ofF Malaga, having engaged and driven three of the enemy's fhifs out of the fine. He was dangeroufly- wounded in this encounter; but was not prevented, by that accident, from continuing in fervice : nor does k even appear he ever quitted his (hip on the above account. It is a lingular circumllance, worthy to be remarked, that he never changed his fliip after the acceflion of tjueen Anne, during nis continuance in fervice; a fervice <^ many years continuance. Soon after his return to Eng^ land he received the honour of knighthood as a public and * "The •diiiinlconfideriiiathalby gaining rhe fotcificttioni at tbe South Mole He«l, helhouldoiconftquence reduce ibe town, ordered capuin WliiiaLcr, wiib all tbe bo>ti inned, to endeavour to poffefi himfelf o( it, which w]u peifomied with (jreal vigour lod fuccefi bf tiftiia Uickt aod cipuin Jmnpei, with then pinnacci and other boatii •nd wiih tbe lob qnlf of two lieuicnanti and fort/ men trilled, ud about Gxty wounded, by the fpringing ofaminE, that blew up the for- uEcilions upon tbe Mole i however tbe eooCEdeniN kepi pofleffioa oFtheplaiibrBttwhisb they hadnidcthetiifGlireiiMftenof.'' Ooyer'i Aon. of Q. Anae, I704. Tbe orence, t» watch the naotioos of the enemy, whil^ that enemy, without incurring any expencc at al^ kept her fleet quietly laid up, and yet derived every adyan- tage, ezc^t that of conquefl>' which could be ex[>e3e4 from it. Sir W. Jumper, however, a> well as the reft of his brav^ cotemporafies, h^, in confequence of thefe meafuics, but little opportunity of fienalifing themfelVes after this time. Among the mofl eminent fervices of that time were .ibofe of efcortiog fleets to their difieretu placet of defU- Batiop ; employment* which, as being very confequcntid in their nature, were never confided but to men of the mod eflablifhed chara^er, for prudence and good ow- Ai&, and arc therefore to be adduced as an uncontrover- tible proof of worth ; but which, nevertbclefs,^ mdtke a very indifferent figure in the page of hidory. " ' "■ ' In the month of January 1705-^, he commanded the convoy ^und frotta Lifboo for England, which he cofr- du&ed in fafety to the Downs, after a profpenms pafiage of eleven dayt. While he continued at Lifhon Waiting to colleA his charge, he difblayed tijie flrOAgef! proof of his zeal for the fervice of his country, ai^d the caufe of the arch-duke Charles, having, at the' reprefentation of Mr. Methuen, the Britith envoy at Linon,' dtffatched the Pembroke, one of the fbips under' his command, to Gibraltar, with a (\ipply of money ; for the want of wh^ the garrifon was alcioA in a date of mutiny. Although this may appear, to fjauac people^ an anecdote alnio^ too ■ uiviat Li,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: VAVJ^t orriciRS of giivat hitam. 4^ fDV)al for infection^ yet, yrhfa we confider that by fju- ritcdiy complyjng with this lequeft, he voluntarily dimi- Dilhcd his own force, and attached an additional dagree of Kfponlibility to himfclf, which the braveft men iiavo prqucntly wifhed to ayotd> we tasy, probably, be induced jo admit almoft k greater Ihare of merit to this hitheitq jinnoticed tranrawoh, thao tq others which have liooi] much higher in public efteetn. In 1706, aiid again in 1707, he continued to be em<. ployed on the fame flatton. Keturning from the Streights, witn fix CloudeQey Shovel, at the encTof the latter yeary he was detached, on the morning of the 22d of Od(wer*. for Falmouth, where he arrived in fafety., I( Is not be- lieved that he ever went to fca after this time ; and he it laid to have been Immediately made fuperintcndant of the fhips at Chatham, an office fince fupprefled, ami rendered totally urmeccflary by the modern appointment of port-adminu- He had a tiandfome pcnlion granted ttm on his retirement from fervice; and'no pcrfon ap> pears to haye thought this mark of royal munificence, or public gratitude, improperly or extravagantly bellowed. Id the year 1714 he was appointed commimoner of the navy, refident at Plymouth ; but did not long enjoy hiy new office, dying op the 1 2th of March in the following year. ■ KILLINGWORTH, Thomas, — was appointed commander of the Fox ^rclhip on the i7th of rebrtiaiy 1692- He behaved with the greatcft fpint, in the month of May following, at the battle off" La Hogue, havinc grappled a ' French rear-admiral, who had aftcrwaru the good fortune, through adoniHiing exertions, to clear himfclf. This fuccefs, however, on the part of the enemy, does not in the lead diminish the fptendour of captain JLitlingworth's attempt, which was Ipiritedly and ably conduced throughout. As a reward for this very meritorious conduct, he was immediately afterwardg promoted to the Pearl, a frigate of thirty guns, a veiTel employed principally, during the following year, in con- voying the trade to, and from Hamburgh. In the month ■ Ob die evening of thtt if, ibe mii£(uniM wbick bcfcl fir Cloodefley and ■ put of ibc fleet off Scilly, uxA place. of DiailizodbvGoOglc 4^6 titES AKD eUARACTElS OP cT January 1603-4, he was removed into the Scarbortngft^ • niip of the ume rale, and Rationed as 2 cniifer in the Irifb Channel. On the iQthof July heunfortunatelyfelt in with two laige private ftiips of war, one of them Viounting forty, the other Iwenly-fix guns. Captain KilUngworlh defendd himfelf, with the utmoft bravery, againlt this very unetjual force fur a confiderablc limcj but being at length killed, together with thirty of his people, tne (hip was compelled to furrender. KNAPP, John,— was made commander of the Half Siooi) firplhip on the 17th of February 1692 : in the following year he was promoted to the Africa, a new fliip pf forty-lix guns; but ddes not appear to have been em- pltwed in any confequential fervice till the year 1694, when he was fcnt, in the month of Oflober, to convoy the fleet bound to New England. He had fgarccly cleared the Channel when he fell in with three large French privateers, one of thein a two decked fliip mounting fifty £Dns; the other two, frigate-built velfels, oneof thirty, the other of twenty-four guns. Captain Knspp refblutety engaged them all, and fought his (hip with to much fpint ana good condu^ that the enemy were glad to (beer o(F, after an action of three hours continuance, and make a)) tiie fait they could to efcape. The Africa was not, in- deed, in a condition to purfue them : Ihe had received fo much daioage in her mafls and rigging as to be obliged to put into Coinnna to refit ; after having ftqir^ the Kveral fliips under her convoy, and direfled them to. proceed on fheir-voyage. This ordcrthey complied with, and arrived at their feveral places of deRination, without experiencing any farther inoleltation. In confequence of the fptrited condu^l above -related^ and the fucccfs which attended it, captain {Cnapp wa'a promoted. Toon after his return to England, to the CDtQ- mand of the Monmouth, of fcveniy guns, one of the 0>!ps attached, during that, and the enfuing year, to the mam fleet i a fervice to which there was, at that time, but little opportunity of acquiring lenown. After the peace at Kyfwic he flill continued in commiflion, being appointed to command one of thofe Aiips which prudence mduced comnmcnt to keep always in a Hate 01 cqntpment fit for inunetiiai^ DolizodbyGoOgle VAVAL OFFICERS OF GKtAT BlITAlff. 43^ Immediate fervicpf in cafe of a fudden intuit, or atladc^ from France, or any other foreign power. On the accelHon of queen Anne he was made com- mander of the Expedition, 9 third rate of fcventy guns, fent, under fir George Rooke, in l7o2, to the Mediter- ranean, When the enierprizc againd Cadiz w;is aban* doned, he was, in the month of SeptcE^bCr, detached, under commodore, afterwards fir Hovenden Walker, ta the Weft Jndies. Soon after the arrival of the fquadroa at Barbadoes, captain Knapp was dil^atched hack to Eng- land, with fix Eaft India ihips, which had put in there to feek a convoy. He conduced home this valuable charge in fafety, and was foon afterwards promoted to tf^e Nor^ folk, of eighty guns. In 1704. he again ftilcd for the Mediterranean, under fir George Rooke, and behaved with the gxeqtcft gallantry at the battle off Malaga. Soon jiftcr his return to England he retired from this line of fervice, and was appointed malier-attendant at Deptfoid^ sn office be continued to hold till hi? death, whicn hap- pened fometime in the year 1708. LITTLETON, Edward, — was appointed captain tt the Thomas and Elizabeth tirefhip on the 17th of Fe^ bruary 1692. In the following year he was made cap- tain of the Smyrna FaSor, of ftrtyguns, one of the ftipi fent, in the nMwith of July, to efcort the unfortunate fleet bound to the Streights. On his return from this unhappv expedition he was promoted to the Aflillance, a fourm rate, a Oiip employed principally as a cruifer, and in fer- vices where it was next to impolTjble to acquire renown. In December 1694, he w^s advanced to the f:om- mand of the Montague, a third rate, and in the enfuing fpririg fent commodore of a fmall fquadron ilationed to crpilc at the entrance of the Channel. In this fervice he met with fbme fucccfs, particularly having, in Ac month of March, fallen in with a fleet, confifling of upwards <^ thirty fail, of which he captured feveraf, and difperfed the remainder in fuch a iDa|)ner that the greateft part of them were picked up by the privateers. He was afterwards removed into the Dorfetihire, of fcventy guns^ in which (hip he died on the ad of January 1695-6. LYELL, Thomas, — was, on the iglh of Aug. 1693, »poiiUed commander of the Prudence, hired lb ip of war L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: p^ LtVBS AHD CHARACTBRS OK of forty-two guns, a vcflel empioycd, during thii ud th^ following year, in convoying the coal trade to and fronj the northward. Nothing farther is known of this gentle- man except that, in the month of Augiift 1696, he wa^ fiomniander of the Milford, a cruifing frigate, at that time laying in Yarmouth roads. IntelligCDCe being received By him that, j^ ifinall French privatevr was cniifing to the ^rthward, and had done incredible mifchicf to tbe coaAing trade, having taken and ranfomed many veflcU within a very fhort fpace of time, he determined to go in quefl of her. To have purfued her in the ^ifford would have been of no tSeO., the privateer not only being one of the faAefl failing velTels ever known at ^ai time, but alfo, from her diminutive fixe and fmall draught of water, having it always in her power toefcape by keeping clofe along Ihore whither the frigate could ■Qt follow ner. Recourfe, therefore, wts to be Dad to Ura- tagem i and a fmall fifiiing boat being inflanlly equipped and manned by ci^tain Lyell, with a chofen crew from the frigate, he himfelf accompanying them as their com- KiaDder, he put to fea and foonjgot fi^t of tkc enemy, who, deceived by appearances, fell into the fnare, was boarded, and quickly taken. This fpirited little enter-; prife is, we have alr«idy obferved, all the Lofomiation we save been able to coUedl relative to this gentknum, fb( it does not even appear at what time he di»l. MAUND, Chriftopher, — was, on the a9th of January 9693, appointed commander of the Diamoiui frigate, thci^ in the Wdl Indies, as fucceflbr to captain Richard Cottoi^^ ^ng in a very fhort time afterwards iemoved into the Antelope, he dred commander of that fhip on the i^tb ol ^arch following. MESTEER, George, — was a gentleman of Dutch or German ejora^ion. Entering into the Englifh navy, he was, after pafling through the fcveral fubordinate tanks, aoade captain of the Lumley Caftlc, of &fty-{ix guns, oa the i6th of September 1692 j but this fhip does not appear tp have been ready for fea till the month of January fol- lowing. In the month of June he was fent, under the orders of fir Geoigc Rooke, to convoy the Smyrna an4 Streights fleets. The misfortune which attended them we tiave bad too frequent occaiion to leUte. He w^ fome- time DolizodbyGoOgle MAVAL OFriCSKtor QUAT niTAlH. 4Jt9 ^me afterwards removed into the Coventry, m fftgtte en. ployed as a cniirer in the Channel. In this kind ijf fer* vice he met with tolerable fuccefs, having, particulaHy in the year 1695, not only captured fevcral Imil I privateer* which had long infellea the coaft, but retaken fome welleli vhich they had madeprizeof. I n the month Of December hd was fent to the Streig^ts, under the <»ders of commodord Moody, with a- convoys and, on his return from this feiu ?tce, was difpatched to the Weft Indies, where he'die4 on the nth of December 1696, PEDDER, Andrew, — was app in the month of December following, Wc find a letter written by him, to fir Clou-s 4eiiey, on the general alarm^ dccaficned at that tiroe by Ihe profped of the French invafion, in Which he ufes the foUowltig ftrong and remarkable expreffloti^ " I have or-> dered cgptsin Belwood) and captain Peddcr td godownttf «ou ; 1 think them both very good ment and have long ubourcd in vain to have them redored to their employ-i ■lents. I think their cornant forwardnefs, to go when; there may be xny probability of iervice, will rwnove that difficulty.'* Mil. kaflel's intcrcd preVailed> however^ (bon after this time} and captain Pedderwaa appointed to command ths Kiiuriton. He was cniployed in this fliip about the yeaf 1698, under admiral Aylmer, in the Strctghts ) and conti-> aued capuin of the fame vefTcl till a {hort time before the scceflioD of qUcen Anne, when he wis appointed to ths ChichcdcT) of feventy guns, and Tent to the Weft Indies^ where he died fomc time in the year 1702. PERRY, John, — ^was appointed commander of the Owner'sLove fiiefliip on the 17th of February 1692. Early in the following year he was fent, in this fhip, to the Weft Indies, under the command of fir F. Wheeler^ where he was, fome time afterwards,, removed into the Cygnet, alfo a firefhip. In this veflel he had the misfor- tune to be captured by the enemy ; an accident which ap> fears to have been attended with circumilances little ledounding to his honour. His condufi being enquired into by a court' mart! at,, he was fentenced to be difmiflcd the fervice, and imprifoned, as it is fald, for life. He wat xeleafed after the acccUion of queen Anne, when he had fuSered ten years imprifonment ; but was never reilored to his rank as an officer. However he might have failed in the duties of his pro- feflion, he was in other. refpe£ts a man of confiderabic ability and ineenuity. After his releafe he undertook to bank out the Thames, which had inundated an extenlivc track of land in the county of ElTex. In this attempt he fucceedcd by dint of pcrfeverancc, and that Heady conduit ^bisb ever nmks a great miod| not to be baffled by dff- appowunem. L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii; «AVAt OfrititS OF tiKlA¥ StfTAtlf. 4j|< feppDthtment, or difheariencd by the want of fuccefs ixi tfie beginning of an undertaking. He died ia a very advanced age on the 19th of February 1733. SHOVEL, John, — was, on 'the iMh of September 1692, appointed cSptaJn of Ae Smyrna Faflor, an hired fhip of war mounting forty guns. In the following yeaS he was promoted to command the Duke, of Ainety gtins* Under Mr. afterwards ftr David Mitchell, who hadfioiftet his Sag on board that fhip as rear-admiral of the blue. We hear nothing farther of him till the year 1695, when he was appointed captain of the Expedition, of feventjT guns. He continued to command this fhip, and always belonged to the main fleet till the time of his death, whicit happened on the nth of April 1^7. From the limtli- tude of names he mod probably was a relatioR to tha great fir Cloudedey, but tMs is not known with a fuffi* cient degree of certainty to warrant our poGtive allertiQa of it. STEWART, James,— was appointed commander ai the Flame firclhip on the i6th of February 1692: he continued in the fame command during that and the fol- lowing year. He foon afterwards fo far atlrafted the notice of fir Cloudefley Shovel as to be recommended by him to the command of the Cambridge, of eighty gunc On board thia fhiy he himfelf hoil^ed his flag as fccond in command of the fleet nnder lord Berkeley, of Strattoa, which was employed during this year in the attacks of the fmaller French ports. When the feafoa became too £ar odvatvxd for any farther operation, fir Cloudefley again earneftly intercfted himfelf • to procure captain Stewart the command of the Dutchefs, of ninety guns ; to which Ihip he was, in confequencc, appointed the latter end of Auguft 1695. When tlie fleet was ready for Tea in the following year, and fir Cloudefley was about to hoift his flag on board the Queen, as admiral of the blue, he again a[^lie iriadwM fcdni^ down Bpea ni vhIi ill tbe Qu\ litey cooU ia*ke> Totnrdi evouiig tfaeycune hir opwiih ui; aodwlieii t itaiom Ihot ctnld nach ibenl we fired alliwin tbe betdmoS, fpmdiiw oar colours. They botS braced to lad fbewid Ei^ifli coloun. -uptun Stewart ordertd fau tUrd lieutenant in a boat to difcovcr what tlKy were. Bctoe tbei waj bit weather, and little wind, be haled (he leafi, who aalwms lUB tbe WejriMotb, and tliat tbe oibCr fliip «ai die LeDOi. We bad DO briber doobt of ibeir being French ; we Hood oat cOuHc all Bigbt under our lofKfiili; and they kept conpanj'. *■ About Ik o'clock 00 Monday momiae tb^ wth b0tc down upbd Mr lartMard 6de ; the bi^gell a little ahead of tbe oibcr; aad bv ibeit Urorlong we could eafily judp their intcntian wai to \mj UoaltMrd; The Uggefl, a Dup of Gaij or Bwf-bar gan, came along our fid* firtog great and foiaU Ohm ) bat we gave her Indii *arm CDtettainiDcnt Aat & fbniid it note convenient to Ibcer out ahead of ni- Ai Ibe «re bniw *eiy liltte wind, we had linic ei>aarii to ei*e bef re broaooe*, with roand aitd partridge from aim, and double ir lower tier, few of which, we bdierc, miled, being not abort Z balF a cable) length from na. By thii time Ihe «ai Iboc oat a little ahead. The other, a Ihip of Gfiy at &fty>fi>ur guoi, Wu ap with oo^ larier, whom we treated io the fame manner ; and obliged, by tba :al of oar (ide, to {heer ont ahead of uaj ater her companioti. Ini mediiiely ifiei they both wore round and attacked uaon (he Sarbonri fide, where they found the like reception; and then they both Ihecred Out aflcm of 01, between ui and the Society, an bofpi^ Ihip in out Company, endeavouring to cut her off from lia. l^on thii we woi« round after them ; and the hofpitil Ihip prudently (pringios ber luff qnickly came near ni | bat each of lliea bad paBed a broadSde npMi Mr, killed captain Chapman the commindcr, and woooded fevcn of hia men : iheo they both kept their wind, and a little after biaced to. We Aood on oar way with oar top-fail*; and fitted o^ri^ging believing they would be with tu again io a little time cooGderi^ tfa* advanta^ of force wai fo mnch on thdr fide | but (bev left ol. Thi wboIedirpatElallcdnMlboreinfaoBrihitiMfniiyMI'i AlliM D,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: NAVAL OFVICtftS OF OIIJtT BKITAIN. 433 a Rrr-nric taking place almoft immediately afterwareto the Expedition ttu put out of commiffion, and captain Stewart doea not appear to have held any ddier conunaMi till after the acceflion of queen Aime, when he wu, a third time, appointed to be captain to fir Cloudeflejr Shorcl, who had hotfted his flag on board the Qiieen. He Was one of the members of the court-tnartial, of which fir Cloudefley wai prelident, held in the mcmth of July, at Spiihead, for the trial of fir J(An Munden. Sir Cloudefley being, not long after this, diQntched with a drone fquariron of twenty (hips to reinforce fir George Ro«e, captain Stewart accompanied him on that expe^tion' : btn the capture of Vigo, which was the par- ticular fervice in which this force was lent to co-operate, being accomplifhed before the junftion took i^e, wa meet with no occurrence relative to him worth comme- tnorating. In the fcdlowin^ year fir Cloudetley, who was appointed comntander-in-cnief in the Mcditermneant removed his fl^ into the Trimnph,- and Mr. Stewart accompanied him as firft captain. The events of this ex- pedition are equally tminterelting with thofe of that pari of the former, in which fir Cloudcfley's divifron was con- cerned. In the following year the admiral again re- moved his Bag into the Barneur; andthatfriendfhip which had fo long fublifted between himfelf and captain Stewan ftill Continuing andiminiOied, the latter accompanied htm, and was appointed to the above fhip. He did not, at the battle off Malaga, lofe the fmalled part of that crt-dit and reputation which we have fecn him already acquire ; in this, which was the' lafl confequential fervice in which he was engaged, he b^ved with the molt dillinguifhed refo- lution ; and; had that been poflibtc, would, on this occa« lion, have added confiderabiy to his former laurels. He unhappily did not long furvive this well-known conteft, dying, on the i7fh of February 1704-5, on board the Kitfleur, continaiugi till the tad hour of his life, the con- tttnt friend and ctmipanion of his brave and evcr-lo-be- eficeit and (hip* company bebved tbeiiifcl*«i very wc]l. We hid itiirteca mea kilM oMrighi, kod ibtrtji-iHiie wounded. Lieuteaint Coket i* Ibot ihratwh ifae ilugh, but it ii hoped will recover. W* ^ercj when vefau^t, iwcnty-four lei^i S.S.W from Sciliji.'' Vol. II. E e revered L„u,i,.™u,Cooglc jf$( KVtR AMD CflAtACTERS'Or :ttvend patron. It is nccdlcfs to add mj eulo^m oif the chara£ler of a msm, who tud merit enough to acquit* ;thc friendlhip, w well as the efteem of to great and re* nowtKd a perfon as admiral Shovel. VINCENTf Samuel,— was appointed commander of to pafs a fentence on him which amounted to little more Ahan a reprimabd, " That he fbould be fufpended from his command, but that this fufpcnfion fhould not take place till his joyal highncfs, the lofd hij^ admiral, had Rea pleafed to confirm that fcntencc, and fend orderf irom feneland for it to be carried into execution." - Thctioieand duration of this rufpcnfiohbcingthus left in the Hreaft of prince George, he fent orders to removs him from his cotnoiand for em daf only. By this mcafurA lie pnidemly fupported the judgment of tne court, and taught fucceeding commanders, that the mofl trivial breach or deviation from the ftrideft line of duty, either in the time of afUon or otherwiTe, could not be overlooked; tt the fame time, that the very Ui^t degree of puniOi- ment infli3ed on this occafion, fomewhat paradoxically appeared as an honour, as it certainly was a proof of hi9 highoelTcB full ^probation of his conduct in every other particular, fave and except the point in quedion. Captain Vincent, therefore, ftill continued in his former fbtion, and became, by the death of Mr. Benbow And the condemnation of captain Kirby, the fcnior captain of the fquadron, the command of which had now de- volved on rear-admiral WhetClone. He was detached by him, in the month of March, with half the fliips to the fouthward, while the admiral himfelf flood weftward with the remainder. An attack had been projcSed on Petit Goavas and Leogane. This had been formerly attempted, and failed of luccefs, under Mr. Benbow, the enemy efcaping on one fide as he himfelf entered the port on the other. This new fcheme totally preventing the repetition of the fame manteuvre on ihe part of the enemy, caufcd the fuccefs of the expedition, and the capture or deflrudUon «f all the enemy's (hips in the porta above-mentioned, a confiderable part of thefe fell intocapti Vincent's hands*. After * " Commodore WhtiftoDC failed for Petit Guivm lod Lcosiiic, In iheGuljihof HifpanioU: %aA for ihe beilerfreveacingaDy lbip» £e a Clca^ag ■ „,.,,,.,.,Cooglc 4-3$ LtTES AHB 6HAKACTItS Of After his retum from the Wefl Indies we hear luttfnnc^ ,»f him tiK the ytv 17091 at which time he comnMnilea die Ncwxrk, of eightvginn.cne of the ftips employed - ^meet and tfcart into ixirt the Deet daily expfcded ttoiA the Well Indjcs. He failed from Plymouth on the leilb «f Oiflober*, having under his command a ttfoaAroKy conflfliag of three third, with as many fsunh rates, and Ibc nO, U ibe nonhmuL Ai b« had can|«aw«4, tkne Frepch |wk vtit.en, upun the appeafance of oyiaio ViaceDt, and the fhipa wiib biqi, imtncdiaicly uikkI avay to ihe corthward, and To came in the commodore'j riew i wbtreof one of twelve, and another of rouitce» gUM wetejrhace^ aAon and boAi t and rhe tbiri, of tea gtmi, wa> mImd. Iq ihe «ein )•■« caftan VuKeal, with hi* boaii, rowej, ii» the ni|bl, undtlcoveKd, into ibf cut, trhcM ibcrc )aj fm B>p»i whereof the biigcS Irai rormcrly iakn> front lu, and wtt uUed the Selwia; flie bM faerfiill cargo, and wai richly ladeo, buiali herEuI* Ifera on Omh«. Our booti tmrni oae, funk aaotbcr, aqd-towcd Out a diird. which \m acaafbit of At other privaweit; (he Iwrth waa biMrded by one of our fx^U, but, by accidcati blew ap. Thi» aflanacd the enemT io thofa pani; aod it put tfaein u«4er iraM coo. fieiiution to (ee ihc fltipi burning thus oa ooih Gdei of the bay. The Iquadron loofced into Port au Paix, a kubour on the north fide, to Tea if ihcrc were aay Ihipa there, but found none. Therefour pHnieers, vhich have been lafccn and burnt, weK all they hid, and wete de- nned to liil with five kuodred atan 10 ibc north fide of Jaaaica, t* niake a de(ceiit,aad t»pluiu(cr Std defirOyiiKcouoify," Gazoiae, No. ggaS. * Campbell fayieirKer in tlMDi«oib,bM in tIua-liei>nii&*l»B> appears u,Goo^Ii: KAVAL OFnCEKS OF OXSAT BXtTAtK. 437 •l^ears to h«re executed the fervice, on which he wm lent, with the ^rcateft diligence and puDdualit;. Ho afterwards was joined by lord Durfly, vke-admh-a) of tiie white, and continued undt^r his command during the re* nuinder of the year. After he quitted the Newark^ which be did not long after this time, he appears to have ntired totally ftom the fervicc. He iurvived many years, Mot d)»ing till the 27th trf September 1729. WAGER, Sir Charles, — was one of thofe truly ami- able and praife-worthy perfons, who, by dint of their own E roper merit, ynaflifled by I inHuence, Bve attained iIk higheft ir profef- lion, and, in a civil line, h: ofl confe- ^uential offices of the llatc incurring cenAire and reproach, but h; It motnen- touE concerns, and arduous tted thctn- felves lu the admiration ol ied, when full of years and glory, ctted and faunentetl, as they lived bclovea. . He was appointed captain of the Ru2ee fireihtp on the 7lh of June 1692; but was very foon afterwards pro- moted to the Samuel and Henry armed (hip, of forty-foiir guns, in which he was fent, in the faintmcnt, therefore, to the chief cotnmand of the fiiuad^fent, in 1707, to the Weft Indies, wa^asflrong s proo^«f the dt&emment, and integrity of thofe, under whofe gufpices he wa? nominated to this ftation, as it was honourihle to himfclf, undiflinguifhed in that line which generally {j«^es popular favour, to be fcleded for fo high a tnift. He (atied from Plymouth on the loth of April, having tender his orders nine (hips of war, with which he was to convoy to the Wedlndies a fleet of forty-five merchant, ihips. Hie rank in the fervicc, at the time he failed, was only that of captain of the Expedition, of feventy guns ; but hehad, by his cymmillion, the privilege of appointing, a captain under him, and hoifting a broad pendant as commodore, vhen clear of the Channel. He ufed the utmofl diligence in the protedion of his charge to the fe- veral places of their defhnatipn ; and this proper care and attention was rewarded wiQi the fatisfafiion, tnat it proved completely fuccefsful' On his arrival in the We^ Indies his firft care was to provide for the fccur)ty of the Britifh -.'''' icttic- DolizodbyG-OOgle RVV/Et. OVPICEItS OS CREaT SIITaIM. 4^ Jfcttleitwnts ; where he ii)troduced fuch prudent fegiil*-' timis, and was fo attenlive, on all occafions, to the pro-- leflion of commerce, that both the colonies themfcives- and their trade flourlthed more, during his cominuance on tliat flation, than they ever had done during the prefent war, or that which pfoceded it in the reign of king William. In the month of December following he received ad-, vice, that the celebrated French chef d'eTcadre, Du Calfe, vas d^tly expedcd in the Weft Indies with a fquadron <^ very great force, deltinedi as it was generally fuppofed* for the attack of Jamaica. Tliis apprehenfion (;uickl/ pafled away, as certain information arrived, thai his er-> ■land, in that part of the world, was to the Havannah, to convoy from- thence (he ^lleons bound to Spain, whofit whole marine was, at that time, in fuch a wretched ilate, as to be unequal to the protection of fo valuable a treafiire. ■ The commodore immediately formtd a projeA of attacking the galleons before they had joined their pro- te£lors, as monflcur Du CalFe's force was too great for him lo expe£l the fmalleli fuccefs afterwaids. Campft b^lt, who^ppe^ts to have carefully contidirred the cha- ladcr of this great ma^, yery properly obferves, that tho-- idea of making this bold attempt did not originate from the hope of enriching himfclf, but merely from a dcfirs qf doing his duty, and efiet^ine every thing that was in his power ag'ainft the «nemy. The route of the galleons was well known to Mr. Wager : they were fo fail from' Porto ^ello to Carthagena, and from thence to the Ha-" Vannah, where the Frpnch commander was to receive them. Mr. Wager in confequence, refolved to fend as many fhips as he could fpare over to the Spanilh main to watch the cfiemy, andiifpollible, procure fome information of their* intended nioUOHs. • With the remainder, which he himfelf thought a fuf— licient force to cope with the Spaniards, he himfelf put to- fpa about, the middle of January on a cniife. He conti- nued out till the month of March, except that about the middleof February he put into th<; illeof Pines to prucure a fupply of wood and water. About the 14th of March' ife received intelligence, from captain Humphry Pudner, >fljo <;u|pq:iapde^,the Severn, ore of hU cruiiing Iliips, Jhat- P c 4 the D,=,i,z.dsvGoogIe 440 LIVES ANfi CHASACTZtS 6P ^ nlleons were not to lail from Potto Bello till the tft of Ma)r. Induced by this circumftance, added to advice that the Spaniards knowing him to be on the coafl, ivere completely on their niard and would, probably, nfe fiich precsutiors, to preferve ^eir flitps, as fliould baffle his utmoft diligence and activity, he refolved to return to Fort Roya). He hoped, by this manauvre, that the Spanianu, lulled into a deluiive fecurity hy the knowlcge of hif departure, might proceed with Icfs caution, and he might thence be able to polfefs himfelf of the galleoDs be- fore advice of his return Ihouid reach them. The commodore was not otherwife totally unfuccefsful durtnghis iaft cruife: indeed itwould have been particularly ' unfortunatciftheveryllngiilzra3ivityandzealhedifpla}|cd for the fervtce, had been fo. The Expedition, his (hipV needed fome repairs before it was concluded, and waH obliged to be Tent to Fort Royal. On this occalkm hs fhiftcd his pendant into the Kingfton and continued at fea ; in confequence of which condu^ feverai very valu- able prizes were taken by different Ihips, two of tbem by himiiif. • All the (hips that could be got ready for tea, which, eonfiAed onlv of the Expedition, Portland, Kingfton> and a fireOiipbcingcquippeu, the commodore failed from Port Royal on the 14111 ot April. He encountered a dreadful florm the beginning of May, in which fome of his fliips, particularly the Expedition, experienced much damage; but not to be difcooragcd by anv accident that did not* totally incapacitate him from fervice, he repaired this mif- fortune, as well as he could, at tea, and continued his cruife. The confiderable time which elapfed before he got fig^t of his expeded prize made him fearful left it Ibotild, by Tome means or other, have efcaped him ; at length, oa the 28ih of May, all thefe v^in fears vanifhed, by his dif- covering, at day-break, two Ihips landing In fcM- CaTtha< gcna, which were, by noon, cncrealed to (eventeen. The enemy, ccaifident in their fuperior numbers, and, in foine degree, even contemning the fmall force of the Engljlh, feemcd rather carelefs and indifferent whether to fight, or endeavour to efcape. They held on their coune but without crouding fail, imagining their numbers would deter the EnglJiE commodore from purfuing than. In this DiailizodbvGoOgli: NAVAl OFTICEIS OF OtEAT »ITAm. 44t lAis thev were miftaVen. Finding tbemfelves purfua^ and that lowirds evening they could not weather Bani, « fmall illand in their paflagc to their AeH'med pott, thef fonned a kind of line, and xeroiutety determined to co&- tclt, and «nd the matter at oace. 'Fhe three mofi valuable fhips, that is to fay, thofe whrch had the fpccie on board, were diHinguifhed as admi-' nls or commanders (hips. The largell, carrying a vfhhe pendant, waa in the center; flie was in force not at all inferior to the Expedition : Ihe tnounted, indeed, onl^ fixty-four guns, which were all brafs ; but was vtry fa- perior aa to the numbers of her crew, having on boarl near feven hundred men. The van was led by a fltip mounting forty-four guns, and carrying a limilar pendant at her mi zen- top-mad head. The tear was dofed by x very fine (hip, mounting fifty brafs guns, with a |>eT>daK at her fore-top-maJt head, and afiing as vicc-mdmiral, or coitiiRander, m the fecond pod. 'rhefii three (hips were at the diftance of about half a mile from each other, the interval being filled up with other velfeis, many of H^ick' Ve faid to have been of good force. Boyer, afTeits, that one «f them, a French fliip, carrying ihirty-lix gims, was en- ^ged with the Expedition, and fupportcd her Spanilh com- Cnions a confidcrable time; while, on the other hand, diard, and after him Campbell inform us, there were tKily two French ftiips in company, that one mstmtel thirty, the other twenty-four guns ; and that they both ran away immediately on the commencement of the aitton. Of (he remainder, two were Hoops, and one a brigantine* which flood in for the land and made their efcapc ; but after thefe various detachments were made, the commo- dore' and his two feconds had twelve (hips to contend with. I'he commodore got a-longfide of the center or largest ihip juft at fun-fet, and immediately began to engage. He is faid, by Boyer, to hare, at one time, had both the vice and rear-adiniral tipon him, ac well as the large French Oitp jud mentioned. No notice, however, istaKcnofthiscir- cumftance by any other hiftorian. Thus br, however, all agree, that neither the Kingflon or Pordand did their duty and fulfilled the commodore's orders, notwithllandii^ ho |Hirpofcly hailed the former^ aitd ordered bei to cagagr DolizodbyGoOgle 442 IIVBS AKD CRAIACTBRB OP Ae rear-admiialT and feot his boat to the Poitluid, wtd| io&nidions for him to engage the vicc-adarinl. Finding thcfe directions were neither of them likely to be com- - plied with, he made the fignal foi a line of battle, as both the {hips kept to windwanj out of theii ftMions; but of this ihey were as regurdlcfB as they had been of hit fonner orders. The Expedition atidthe Spanifti admiral had been engaged about an nour and an half, when, by fome accident, the latter blew up, eleven only of her crew beii^ faved, -which were picked up iSoating or fome of the wreck the next day. This melancholy dilalter oat only depiired the commodore of his bell, and nearly acquired prize, but was atteof^ with the grfcaied danger to the txpeditioD hcrfelf, as well from the immenie heat of the blafi* and the flamtog planks and timbers which ypre carried on board her, as from the violent fhoqk and cpnculCon, which forced a confiderable quantity of water into the (Commodore's lower deck ports. Thefe incooveaiencies being got rid of without farther dam^, the commodore made fail for a large Jbip ahead of bim> which was the only one he could )cecp light of, for it was now hce<»ne extremely iu\~i and the enemy, immediately on the blowing up of the commanding Qiip, began to fepaiate and each to fhift for himfeir in (he belt manner he could. About ten o'frlock, however, he came up with the (hip he was in purfuit of, which afterwards proved to be the rear-admiral. It was then ib cxlreinely dark that it was impoffiblc to djfcover which way the enemy's head lay ; fo. tliat, firing ^t a venture, he had the good fortune to pour bis whole broadfide into the Spaniard's Hern, which did him fo mvich dam;(ge ^ to d'^ablp him fropi making fail. The commodore being then to leeward tacked, and, after a ifaort ftrcfch, put about, and weathered his antagonift, ■idiom he immediatelji began to re-engage, 'I'he Kinglloi) jind Portland, beingdjre£ted by the flalhes of his guns, fooa after came up and allifled in the capture of the enctny, who furrendered about two o'clock in the morning. T|ie Commodore having, in the foregoing actions, not only recuved confiderable damage in his malls and rig- ^ng, but being obliged to lay to with his piize, and fp^jt encamped wjlh bjs piifoo^rs^ wlii^h were very pumerous,' L„u,i,.™u,Coo^Ii: KA V A£ OIVtCEBI or OttAT BUTAM. 44^ is,~hexltTeded, 'at day-brcalc, the Kinffbn at4 Pontsuid to chxce a large Ibip he then difcovered oa hi* wether low, which he vciy juftly fuppofcd to be the Spsnilh vke-admirai. How ill the comnaixlcrs of tKa& uipt exscutHl their ordeis will be hcreidter Seai io their lives. ThecQnimodorehkvingRfttt^hisowii (hipand thepiixe^ »5 writ fts ctrcumllances, and his lituatton would pennita nfolved to proceed, without lofaof time to Jamaica; biic t>eing vcty much itraighteped for prnvifKHU and >vater^ was oblige^ to yield to the entreaties of his pnlBDera a^ put them on ibore 00 the ifland of Bam. The commit dore being the next day rqoined by the Kii^ftoa an4 pQRland, which were difpatcbcd, on the 3ifloi M^, to deiiioy a galleon, »f forty guns, that had taken flieltev under the above-mentioned iOand.; a^d finding his owfi fliip in a very ill-condition for feivicct he removed his pendant on ward the I'ortland, which had fufbnned no dama^, and Cent the other fhipe and prize into port, fie&eding, kowevcF, that in a fingle (hip little opporta- nity was to be expected of e&Sing any £:rvice ag»nft the enemy, he refolved to return to Jamaica, where ha arrived on the 13th of July, and had the fatisfa^on to find the prize, convoyed by the refl of his fqiudron, had fafely anchornl in Port Roy^ five days before. He fbm after received advice from togland of his being advanced to be rcar-wUniral of the blue, a promotion, tilt this timo^ unknown to him, although il had been made as hi back as the 19th of NoveiBber in the preceding year. On the .3d of December 1708, he was £utber promoted tobe rcar« admiral of the white. On his arrival at Taoutca he exhibited a mott hononr. able proof of honeuy, integrity and benevolence. Pre^ yious to this year tlKre wa« no repilar and efiabliAed modeof dividing, accqfding to a hxed fyftem, the propcrtjr taken from the enemy among the captors; each individual plundering) and feizing^ to his own particular ule, as fpuch as could be found out of the hold. There were^ indeed, 6ime few. ill-defined regulations which cuftom had, in Tome degree, ere^cd into a law j but thefe wem* according to ciicumftances, as often broluo tbraugh* as pbTcrved i ap4.evpp vffts they tq h^vi; tvCA rowo&iawl in . . their DolizodbyGoOgle 444 UTtS AS» CHAXACTIM OF thctr Itridcft (aA, were, to the nujor part *r tbe emr inequitable and unjoA. To remedy thii defed, and aninute tbe feanen on fwk occaiions to more fpirited cxsrtiotn, wi aA ^luriiameirt was pancd fettling tbe fnture diflribation. Tnn arfimi at Jamaica a fhort time bcfotc the commodore's letvm from his cmile; and though he had, accocding to the vfual cnftom, permitted the people to plunder at the limo of takii:^ tbe prize, he now appointed regnlar agents far the c^tors, ia compliance with the hw. He, moieoics* ordeicd Mr. Long, his captain, to deliver up tHeiiher and other valuable efiefti which, according to tk oM teiiom, he had feized between dtcks for the comnodcnc^ Hie, as well as his own. This moll henouiaUe mRanco of felf-denial, wrou^t that tmpreffion on the minds of the leamen under hin, that his pratfes, traditiaBally hands J down through that extenfive cbTs of pcopfe^ renffared him erer afterwards the conftant idol of their a&Aion- ' The iervice juft mentioned was of a much more confe- qocntial aature, confideicd on a national gtonnd, than il may, pertupt at fit^ light, he thought. The dtffiadtics aid riik oi fending home tieafurc to Eurt^, in time of war* had caufed tl^ Spaniards to defer the return of ibis Ae4 feveial years, fo that its accntrmlaled riches were now ie~ eomt almoft incredible, amotniting, accordinr to feme, to little icTs than fiftr million pieces of eight. Nothing but a wantofcrccfit, aunoft produfiivcof gcneial bankniptcy, would have induced the enemy to venture it eren at llus time : and they relied much on the protedioo to be aflbrded it by the French fquadron under monncur I>u Cafle> wk» iiras not only elieemcd one of the beft officers in tlui French fervice, btit wu alfo the bcfl acquainted with ths naWgahon of thofe feas. It is reported, as an anecdote irf'coiiniiodare Wager> ^t he was accoftoRicd to fay, a man who would not &bt for a jalleon would fight for nothing i but this c^inion certainty did not proceed from pcrfonal avarice, but ih« mtich more honourable aSeftion of the mind, the tervicft he Tendered his country by depriving its cneaoics nT the Snewsof war. Almolt immed ia tely after his arrival at Jamaica the cob* naodon«oiMruwiacauil-ouuti^fo>thc timof ifca capialnsi L„u,i,;™u,Goo^It: ITAVAL ortfcnn ot oitJkT bkitaih. 44; Wiirifbc and Bndga. It was held on bbstrd the Ex. (KditiOD, io Port Roysl hatiwur, on the 33d of JiAf K70S, he himCcIf kcing the pidldenti Nothing very in- ^erefttog occurs duriag the time he farther corn inued in this tommmL Tlie moK msterial dFcuaiibncc is (he urival of tntelligeace, in the month of E)DceTnbcr, that monf. Ds . Guai Tfouin might be expe£led in thofe feat with a very powerful force, intended, as it vnt fuppofcd, for the attack of Jamaica. Tb^ ncceflEtry preparations were accardinglv made for an oblHnate defence of the har- bour of Port Royal. The Ihips were moored acrofi the entfance in a line flanked by the fort: but no ««ciny appeadng, it was relblved, at a fubfequent council, M^d on the iM) of January, that, as the enemy had never yet appeared, although fix months had elapfed lince the ^te 01 the advice of their failing from Eim^e, it was not expedient to continue inafiivc any longer in expc&tion of their attack, but that the (hips Oioold be unmoored and proceed on cruifiag, or other fervices, as future in- formation Ihould dired. During the remainder of rear-admiral Wager'a cond- ■aance in the Weft Indies he paid fo much attention to the general protection of trade, that none of thofe com- plaints were heard which had been fo common under for- mer coounanders. This merit, indeed, carried with it a reward ii&ia£i from that mo(t honourable one we have |oft nientioiied, the applaufe and general thanks of hij eduntrymen, for a greater number of prizes were tskcn^ by the Ihips under his command, than at any former period M the fame length. The admiral being ordered home in the autumn, arrived in England in the month of Novembn-. He was received by all parties, by all ranks; in a wotd, both by government and the people, with the l^^eft relped. Reiterated teftimonies were received from the Wefl Indies, all uniting in doing honour to the admiral's vigilance, fpiritandintegrity, and anordingaclearrcfutatioiy ofthe general opinion, that it is impoilible for any com- mander to plealc all parlies. . inunediatcly on his return he \nf promoted to he rear-admiral of the red; and, on the 8th of De< cember, the qiteen conferred on him the honour of kni^thiMd. With ihefe flattering but judly defervcj mark* _ ,l,z<,i:,.,G00glf 4|ft ttv%s Avn CKAtAerit* 0^ -• ■ jaarLs of public and ^oyal ap|)rotntionv- Irr CharTn eff jmtd (t temponry icUxation from the fotigucs of fervics Aiiijw the remtindcr of queen Anne's reign; We find tim utll contiouing in the ftattoA of lai-^jiiamai of tba sc^ at the time m king Geoi^e the JFli^'s acceflibnj loicwdistely after that erent he was apptnntcd com^ Viaqdei- in-chief in the Mediterranean, as mccelTor ta^ J. WiAait, whom it was tbonght proper to recall ; and bt mkalfowlthin a few days afterwards appointedcomptfoUer «f tfie navy. I'he vignous preparations iet on foot b^ Great Brluin to rcpefuty attempt that tn^ht be madd hy any foreign nation, to divert or compel an aiteratioa ^ that fucceffion which had been fettled by an ad of par-* l&ament^andapproredby the whole ldngdom,intiraidatii^ all foreign powers from making the ralh experiment/ ^e have no opportunity of commemorating any thing Khttive to his Mediterranean command. We do not cfen find any mention made by luftorians of his return^ Vbicb we believe to have been in the following year* On the i6ih of June 1716, he was advanced to be vice* yifiniral of the blue ; 6n the i(t of February 1717, to be lice-admiral of the white ; and, oa the 15th of March ibitowing to be vice-admiral of the red. The ofHce of comptroller he held till the year 17181 ie then quitted it, beiAg^ on the i9thof March, appointed a eonutudioner for executing the otHce of lord high ad- miral. He continued uninterruptedly in this flation till June at, 1733, when he was fworn in a member of the- privy council, and advanced tobefirftcommiflioncrofthe admualty in the room of lord vifc. Torrington, who had died a little time before. Sir Charles very honourablr and ably filled this exalted flation till the month of March 1742, when being in an advanced age, ilUfuited to the digues of fo a£lLve an employment, ne religned it, and was appointed treafurer of the navy. But to return to hie naval life. After his arrival fronr die Mediterranean he had no re-appointment to a com-* mand till the year 1722. The iniblence of the Portu- fuefe, who had, with the moll unparalleled audacity, confifcaied thee&e£ls, impiifoncd, and aSually condemn- ed to death, two gentlemen belonging to the fa^tonr at Lilbona uodei; an obfoletc law wfaich hstd never, fpr a ieries DolizodbyGoOgle raVju. officeks of great skitaiv. 447 leries of years, been put in force *, rendered it indifpen- iibly necelTary to equip a tket for the purpofe of prevent^ ing fo flagrant an outrage from being carried into execu- tion ; it confifted only of nine finaH liiips of the line, two i'rigaies, and as many bomb-velTcls and fireOiips; but this force was deemed ^uite equal to the talk of bringing td ocnftoiicd ihe perpetual bccich of thii ridiculoui {liiuie; iml it h particulars. Sir Charles having hoifted his flag, on board the Kenf, tai the the 24th of I^cefflbcT, ufed Jach lEItgence in pro- curing the equipment of the different ftilps, that he wa» in a condition to have put to fea in four days afterwards s be was, however, detuned at Spithead, by foutherfy «riitds, tiB the 19th of January. During this isterw orders were difpatchedtoCorkfor the embarkation of tbe Sgiments of Middleton and Hay i to join the fteet^ as aif ditional aid to the befieged. The fijtiadron having lailed on the day above-mentioned, h leached Gibraltar*- sfter a profperotts pafTage, on the 2d of February, and formed a junction with reaf-admiral Hopfon, who had ^nunandcd on that (btion, durtng the preceding winter, viih four or five (hips of the line, a fmall frigate^ and tht> ^'hunder bomb-ketch. All the forces were Hnmc'i dtaiely difembarked, except three companies of foot, whidi fir Charles found it necelTary to retain un board the * &nipbe1l obfcrvei very properly on tbn expeditioti, that fir C, W«^(i wtfarmeii, or tbii acc>lion, all thit t>o which corrcfpondcnce- concluding with a very fupercilioui anfwer on the part of the latter, did not by atiy means tend tACOnciliate the breach. 'In confequence of^this conduA fir Charles thought himfelf juflly authorifed to fend a de- tachment, conlifling of the Tyger, -the Ourfley galley, and . the Solebay bomb-ketch, round the back of the hilt to en- filade the enemy's entrenchments. This was the firit afiual proof of warfare, and was logically converted, by the Spa- niards, into a dcmonllration that the rupture evidently ori- ginated in the condiiA of the Englilh commanders. ' A variety of thofe enterprifes and tranfa£Uons which neceflarily enfue between adailants and defenders tot^ place between this time and the ceflation of hoftilitics* which was mutually agreed on upon the idth^.w, as others fay, the 23d of^Junc*. Thefe circumlUnces, tririat when * We have ihe following iccount from Smollct of (he tnafiQion* reUiiveio ihii trcity; u ii ii intimatelv cotiDtSed wiih the NrvU Hiflory orihli lime, »nd inuch To with ihechinfkerof GrC, Wi^er, we have ihoughi it nccc&ry 10 I'lofcribc it. " The emperor pua£)iu(ly enccuicd the firO oFtheIc irticle^ and nlified the prclimioanei wiihin the tine igrccdon. Though Aix-1» Chiprlle wu ippdDtcH foi ibe pUce oF congreli, ii wm iftcrwwd* iraniferred to Csmbiiy fot theconveoiencyoF ihetnioiQer of Fruce, wbofe pteTencc wu ncceStry •■ iho couit. The kiiu oFSpiin ilfo cMcuted, io part, what oncerDed him : he sare orden jot FufpendiDC V9J..U. Ff all . ,l,z<,i:,.,G00glf 4fb llVKS AND CltAXACTEKS O^ when con(idered as ftlatmg to the grand events of waf, but the major part of them highly brilliant and confe- cjliential to the cnara£ters of the brave perfons more im- mediately concerned, arc hfiore properly d<:fBf red and con-- imed to their prop<:r heads. As to fir Charles, futKce it to lay, that ai no mun could dcmondrate greater zeal to counicrafltheop«raiionsoftheenemy,ibwasihat zeal never more Aiccefsful. NotwilhRanding the .ceflaiioii of holli- Jities fir Charles ftill continiicd on the fame flation till the month of March in the following year ; out as we meet • with nothing but a ilul! routine of putting to fea, for a fliort Cfuife) with fome of ine fhiris, and detaching otliera to J^ich (latibns as appeared neceUary, thit period of his fcrvice may be pafTcd over with the juft and general re- mark, that the prevarication of the Spaniards could not hive been parried but by the firmelt, and at the fame time mod cautious behaviour. A commander employed at Co critical a period requires a fpccies of judgment far fuperior all FaTther itiacki aiiainll Gibralur, and all boQiliiict agaioD the Eng- Ii& cifFwherc. Tbii wai an hontNinblc vay of abandoning a G^C| %hich liQed four monihi, without fuccefi: not had it done mucb ex- tlifli, for they lofl in all but three bundled and feveniy-ihrEe men. the fui^nlion of arm* wu ligned tbe sgd oF Juiw, U.S. But ttbcn IbefieM wai on the pMoi of being entirely nifed, andlhv prelimintriei io be ratiflcd in form, Spain flancd new dilGcuUiei, and Qrj;eit neW pietenliom. The Spaniard) in lifted that a letoporarf fufpenliDn of armi di'd nol Imply Iri aSual biling of ihi Gege of Gibraltar; and iblt (Be rcOiiillujn of ihe Prince frederlckt the South Sea Ihip, (taken at La Vera Crut, Man Spaitt wai in w with EngUndJ wai noimeniibncd or included in ibe-AnJclei; whereas the EnEiiJli demanded both, by virtue oF >bc prcliminaiiei. Upon thU boRititiet Begin between the fhips of the two nationi; aild fir Charlei Wager continued toeruite on the coadi of Spaii., .. _. ..„ ceflalion of anna at Gibraltar; what wai very remiVkable, t»hil(t be wai looking out with Feven Jhipi for the Spinifh nlleoViii which were faid to M coming home, thiiicen French men of *ar, lix front Brell and fcven fiom Toulon, fuddcnlv came and anchored befbr* Cadiz; of which Fquadron admiral Wager hjid received nb intelli- ^ehce, either from London or Madrid. Ai ibereFofe be had no oo- titt df iheir corning, all communrcaiiani with ifie t'renrh fleet wai forbid. However, after manv cavili and delayi, ibe MeliminaTT ar- tielei were at lafl Oened, at Madrid, on the a^ih of t^bnui^, above ei^t monthi after the death of kini George the Firfi, bf the MiniQeri sTthe emperor, Englaoi^ FraMc) Spain, ap4>tl)i &atw, wbicb openci the way to the con^&i'' i . ** ' ' _-,i,z<,i-,., Google NAVAL OFIICKKS Of OXBAT BKITAIH. 45! to that which is neceflary to coaioEk the mofi anhious and defperate undertakings of declared war. A brave man who carries himfelf with temper on Tuch an occafion tlcmands the higheft applaufe a nation can beftow, becaufe he is frequently, through political reafons, compelled to embrace meauircs totally dilTonant to his feelings; mea- fures which his heart would diCdain to fubmit 10, were not hii country's welfare involved in his temperance. Sir Charles arrived from the Mediterranean on the 1 3tli. of April 17x8, withafquadronof fivefhipsi the remainder being left at Gibraltar under the command of captain Stewart. The pride of the Spaniards was not yet fuiHci- ently humbled by the proofs they had experienced of the tiiperiority of the Britifh naval powert foihat, in 1729, it was again found neceJTary to equip a formidable fleet, which was kept in the Channel, ready to a^ on any fudden emergency. It confiitcd of twenty Hlips of two and three decks, three /hips of forty guns, and four fmaller velTels, It rendezvoufea at Spithead the beginning of May i on the 9th of which month Hr Charles holfted his flag on board the Cornwall, of eighty cuns j and was, q^ the fourthof June, joined byapartof tlie Dutch fquadroji under vice-admiral Sommeldykc. Thefe fhlps were ac- cording to treaty, to ail, in conjunition with the Brilifli fleet, whenever any firreign attack was apprehended. The remainder arrived in a few days, amounting in the whole to nine (hips of the line, three of forty-four guos and two fmall velfels. This confederate force, always in readinefs for immediate fervice, was too formidable to be trifled with by the Spaniards, and Iwed them into at lead a temporary compliance, and conclulion of a treaty ot puace. We lee, therefore, that although many perfons may deem it 10 have been an unnecelUry and ufelefs piece of parade and exptnce, to keep fo many (hips during the fummer laying peaceably at Spithcad, yet, □everthelefs, it tended to accelerate the eflablifhment of , peace as etfeclually as oSenfive operations, or even viAory . ttfelf could have done. Let not, therefore, (hort-fighted politicians ever condemn meafures they do not underttand^ or pretend to arraign a conduct, either in minillers or cora- ' manders, becaufe they are unlucky enough not to com- prebend the meaning of it. Ffa On Jinliz,,!:,., Google 4.51 LIVES AMD CHAXACTEKS OP On the 5th of October, the fcafon being far advanced, and the negOcUtions carrying on at Madrid in a veiy fair train for Settlement, the combined fleets fepanted ; the Dutch (hips returning to Holland, and all the larger {hips of the Britifli divifionMingfent into different ports for the winter. " This fleet," Lcdiard obferves, " had its de- ifired effe&," for on the 1 8th the honourable Morgan Vane arrived at Si. James's, cxprefs from Madrid, with the treaty concluded and figned by that court. In 1731, it being apprehended the French were, with fome very fininer Befign, preparing an embarliaiion at .Dunkirk and Calais, it was again deemed neceffary to prepareafleet,thechlefcommandof which was given to fir Charles. Its force, at firft, confifled of fcventcen fhips of the line, but was afterwards reinforced to 3 greater number. Sir Charles received his orders on the 21A of May, and hoilled his Sag as vice-admiral of the red on the fth of June following, on board the Namurc, at that time tting for fea at Chatham. Information foon after- wards becoming more pofitive, and, ai it was then thdughl, the necefliiics of the {rate more prefling, he received, on ihc 30th of June, frefb inftruclions to proceed to the Downs, and take upon him the command of all fuch fhips as were then ready for Tea. He accordingly fhifted his flag on board the Deal Cattle, and failed for the Downs, where he, a ftcond time removed his flag, into the Grafton. On the 6th of July he received orders to repair to Spithead with all the fhips that were ready to accompany him. He arrived there on the 8th, and on the loth was promoted to be admiml of the blue; oq which occafion ne ftruck his red flag on board the Grafton,, and hoiflcd a blue one at the main-top-matl head of the Namur. On the 14th of July, after having been reinforced by feveral (hips, fo that his fleet now cnnOfled of twenty- one fcil of the line, two (hips of forty-guns, and two frigates, he fet fail for Cadiz, where he fjfcly arrived on the iltof Auguft, Thegiiarauteeottlie pragmatic fanc- tion having fatisfied the emperor, and the introdiidlion of the Spaniin troops into Leghorn the queen of Spaing both which were ^ttled by the treaty of Vienna, Great jlritaia the grand mediatrix, and at that timepre^rveri^ tbs u,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: NAVAL OFFICERS OP GREAT SllTAIM. 4S2 the peace of Europe, was, frooi a point of hoiiqur, put to the cxpencc of fmng ihcfe particulars of the treaty honcKly carried into execution. To that eiul this fleet was equipp;.'d. The nanutive of the voyage would be dull, uninterelling, and tedious, coufiiling wholly of dates of arrivals and vifiis of ceremony ^ fuffice it to fay concifely, that in the month of O£tobef the Eritifh fleet was joined by a Spanifti f^uadron, under the marquis De Mari, having a body of troops on board, and anchored olF Leghorn on the 15th, in the eveoiiig. Every thing being adjufl:,ed and fettled, according to ur Charles's inflru^ions and wifh, he failed from thence oa the 25th, and arrived at St. Helen's on the loih of D^ cember, with five fhips only of his whole fieet^ having been fcparated from the remainder by contrary wiqds ano repeated (torms. Sir Charles never appears to h?vt gone to fea after diis time. He was, as we have already aoticed, sppoittted Brit lord commillianer of the admiralty on the lift of June 1733, as fuccelTor to the Imd vifcount Torrington. In the tnondi of January 17341 he was, from the apprq- henfion that Great Britam mi^t be ultimately involvett in the war which xt that time fprcad over the face of the Continent, advanced to be admiral of the white, aiid pitched upon to command the fleets had the neceffities qT the times ccunpelled government to order it out. The ftorm blowing over, fir Charles continued t^ exerdfe his high office at the admiralty board with much real merit, and the highell int^ity, till March 19, 1741-2, when he quitted it, and was appointed, in the month of De- cember, treafuTcr of the navy. This appointment he did not long enjoy, dying on the 24th of May 1743, in the 79th year of his age. A fumptuous monument has been erected to his memory, in Welhninfler-abbey *, bearing the infcription infcrted beneath t, on which we have " Od the bab of wkieh ii reprcTeDied in Tculptiirc, llw Utack, ctf- turc, utd ddSraSiicra of Ute Spwi A plltans io 1 70S. 4 To the meaoty of SirCBARLK Wagii, Knt. Adniralofihewfaue, firft tgn n ai ffi noa cf ihe Adninliy, And fdvy coaacdlori ff3 Anw , L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: ^54 LIVES ADD CHAKACTBRS OF have to remaric, that as no cfaarader was ever more ho- nourable) Co was never any one more truly and honeftly dcferved, ■ May this marble record fupply any feeble attempts of curs to delineate a charader almoR above praife, and which enjoyed an happlnefs, uncommon and generally unattached even to the moft exalted cbaiadere, ihe falhfailian if rt- maimng unetnfurtd. WAKELIN, William,— wai, on the ii(h of Time 1^2, appointed commander of the Prtncefs Ann, hired fhip of war, of forty-eight guns. Still continuing captaip of this ttiip, in tne following year he was one of the cijnvoy, under fir G. Rooko, to the unfortunate Smyrna fleet. During the years 169,^. and 5, he was employed in "the Channel under fir C. Shovel. We hear nothing of him . after this till the year 1 697, at which time he commanded the Liiicolni one of the Weft India fquadron under vice-ad- miral Neville ; and returning from thence on the nth of -Oflobcr, was removed into fome other (hip of the line, in which he continued during the peace. After the ac- ceffion of queen Anne he was appointed to the Ipfwich, of fevrnty guns; inwhich Ihip he failed, towards the latter end of (he year 1702, for Vigo, with fir Cloudefley . %oveI. He ferved tinder ihe fame commander, in the following year, during the Mediterranean expedition. No A man of fjeit naiQral iilcnii, IiDproTcd by induftry, »nd long experience, Who bore ibc faighcH coinniDt. Chriflopher'ti. The foldiers behaved with the greatelt gallantry, but were fo vcarmly received by the enemy who were very ftrongly entrenched; that they would, in all probability, have been compelled to retreat, if the commodore had not ordered in the Chiehefter to attack the batteries, from which the French being quickly driven, the aflaitants took immediate pplTelGoo of. On the following day a reinforcement of four hun- dred feamen were landed to fupport the troops; and bv this united force the town was attacked with fo muc^ fuiy that the enemy were obliged to retire into the fort and csiilc, which they continued to defend, with mtich refoliition, till the 3d of April, when, blowing up the for- tifications, they made good their retreat into the moun-' tuns. The Britifh, now become unoppofed maften of the country, dcftroycd the town, rafed the fortifications,' carried off as much of the enemy's anilleryu was worth removal, and deftroyed the reft; thus, having acqaired an immenfe booty, they embarked at laft wtdiout the lofs of a nan. The French, who arc extremely fond of paUiatbg 4eir misfortunes, ut^, as a proof «f their not bemg dcieated, that the Britifli troops were (Aliged to retreat. But this- ftroke of good fortune, as it truly was on the part of the enemy, was not, by any means, owing to their prowefs^ but a multitude of unfortunate coinciding accidents and ctrcumllances. General Codrington, and the next in command, colonel Whethain, both fell dangeroiifly ill iq fucceflion. Colonel Willis, on whom the command tben <{evolvcd| received certain information that the French had received a reinforcement of nine hundred frefh tropps, all in condition for immediate fervice,Jull landed at the back of (he ifland; fo that it was at Uit, but not till the 7th of May, determined to reimbark. It is obferved, md on this immediat* occaGoa, " that the expedition fuf- 6 fered L;,Q,i,;.dDyGoogIt: 4SS t-IVES AND CHAIACTIKS OF fined not a little from difputes, which happened between ops been fuppiied from the fleet : the fame want was found to prevail in abnoft every military ftore and fpecies of implement. Thofo mifeiable deficiencies were fupplied by tnc cornmodore ii) the bed manner he was able, fo that the want of (he com- pletcft fuccefc is by no means chargeable to his account, who added a fplrit to an indefatigable zeal not to be. damped by trivial impedjmeats, or flivefrted by a diScience of perfonal opinion. Commodpre Walter now proceeded to Ciuadaloiipe, , where he was in danger of experiencing every inconveni- ence that almoll a total wvit of provifions could occafion. He was however happily relieved from this impending diftrefe by the anival of vice-admiral Graydon, who, Jjearing his didrefs, with the moft laudable humanity and attention to the fervice, bought up all the provifions Bar- bados afforded, and proceeded hitnfelf with this relief to Guadaloupe. Commodore Walker had quitted tha^ illaud and failed for Nevis, whither the vice-admiral fol- lowed him : and having contributed all the fuccour in his power to the neceflities both of the army and the fqu^- droD, took the latter with him^ according to his iipftrtic- tions, to Jamaica, where they arrived on me 5th of June \ and from whence, in the enfuing autumn, the commo- dore returned to England in cotppany with Mr- Graydon. We hear nothing of Mr. Walker after this. time till the year 1706, when we find htm com^odo^ of a fmall fquadron, convoying fome tranfports with troop;, and fent to the Mediterranean, in the month of May, as a reinforcement to fir John Leake, who then held the chief command on that ftaiion. Mr. Walker does not appear' to have been engaged in any thing very memorable, oi beyond the ordinary routine of iervtce. He returned to England with br John Leake at the clofe of the ye«^ DolizodbyGoOgle HAVAL OFFICERS OF CRtAT tKITAIK. 459 ^ear ; and we find him, in fjoj, one of the members nf the court-tnartiKl xQembled at Portfmomh for the Tiial of fir Thomas [lardy : but his name docs not occui in any other event of that year, except his having been, imme- diately afterwards, left commander-in-chief, by fir John Leake, of all the fhips in Portfmouth harbour. In the month of January 1707-8, he was appointed to command the convoy fent with the Virginia and Canary Atet, jufl about the time the French had pretended to make confiderabic prep:irations for the inralion of Eng- land, in favour of the Pretender. On this occafion tn^ failing of the above fquadron was deferred from time (o tfme till the month of March ; nor is it faid whether it ■was then convoyed by Mr. Walker, We rather, how- ever, conceive this to have been the cafe, as no mention whatever is made of him tiHthe year 1711; and it is moll probable that, at leaft during a part of this interval, he wai employed in fome fervice of this nature, little taken at>< tice of. He is faid to have been appointed rear-admiral of the blue in the year 1709 ; but no meiftion is made of his having held any conimand*till the month of March 171 1 ; juft before which period he had received the honopr of knighthood, and was advanced to be rear-admiral of tfae white. An expedition was, at the time above-men- ttened, projeAed againll Canada, the chief command of which, Dy fea, was, through the intereft, as it is faid, of lord Bolingbroke, beftowed on fir Ho%-enden, The force ' deftined for this expedition confided of twelve (hips of the line (according to the rate at that day) from fifty to eighty guns; two fliips of forty, oneof thirty-fix, two fmallcr frigates, and two bomb-ketches. The land force, which was conveyed in thirty-three tranfports, together with eight laden with (lores and ammunition, confiltedof feven complete regiments, befides recruits for fome abeady in America, amounting in the ^hole to five thoufand three himdied and three men, under the command of brigadier- ' He had bccD, on (he cfaangc or the mioiHry, ippoiDted Tuperin- ttndaiii at Plymouth, which btin^ a civil eniplo);iiicni, kcdudu for sodiuw fccJog f«ni>d iekli*( to him, dunng thi* nine, in tixt line nf a8i*e knice, general . IN.™ .,., Google 4^0 f,IV£S AHD CtTAKACTBJtS 0¥ general Hill. Tiiis formidable fleet • failed from St, Helen's on the ogih of April, and arrived at Nantafket, near Bofton, on the 24.ih oi June, withoui having met with anyocciirrcncc worlh relating during its paJlagt. The rear-admiral, immediately on hi;' arrival at Boiton, began, with aiuch eamcftnefs, to re-equip his ihips, and procure fuch a recruit of {lores and piovifions, as were deemed abfolutely necelTar^ for the intended expedition. In this bulinefs he met with many UDforefeen obflacles; up Hock of proviHons was, as it ought to have been, pre- vioully provided, and it was with the utmoft difficnlty* even at laft, a quantity, far fiiott of the nccellliies of the fleet, could be colleued. Every thing being at length arranged in the bed manner c ire tun (lances and rarious impediments would admit, fir Hovcodcn was enabled to fail on the 30th of Jifly> The feafon was already too iar advanced for an expedition of this nature> when the fleet originally failed from England j and-to this delay, sukkd to tltat which it afterwards experienced at Bofton, may be principally attiibuted diat tnjsfortuiie wbicb prorcd its de- UTu£lioR. The fleet anchored in Gafpce bay, at the eutiance ^ the river St. Lawrence, on the iSthofAufftift, Ontheaoth> die wind becoming fair, the fleet tumed out c^ ^ bey, and on the following day got into the river. They had now to encounter one of thofe fogs fo common in that climate. The navigation of this river was, at that time-, little known, and its currents, as well as othf r natural impediments, {fill lefs underftood even by the bed pilots, fo that we can the lefs wonder at the dreadful misforKine which befcl the fleet on. the night of the 23dt, eight tranfpocts * All tfacIl)ip>of«*r didDolbilfnmEasluid wiihfir HoTcodeBt AeWindlbr, of fiitrgiiTM; ibe.Cbeflcrand Leopard, of fifty; Uk £iiterpr!ie and Sapphire, of ferly ; and the Fevcithain, of ihirty-fii, hiviDsrjoined hiin on ibc coad of Amciica. t T&elbIU>wiD^ex(n£lfromfirHoTeiidn'ijoaT«il,KhtiTetolbe (ircumflince* which immcdiiicly ptecedcd ibu caUmilj, will Knd Kucb to explain the caufc of it. " Angufl ig, Cmida Rurcr, ** I confidered,(hitfiDee Aerewttcnofowdingtbywhichwccaald Ibim iny jndgaent of our difitoce fc»a>>of ippwch KHmdt Ac Bwm, and the f«g Mtog fo very thick mbm to afiocduttbe InAl^i^feJby DiailizodbvGoOglf HATAL OrFlCHS OP GBEAT bRITAIH. 461 (wccD the £.S.E.aDd E. favN. wbich,b)' the wlvantHCof two pointy wtft vanition, in *U likelihood would nike oar dnft « le*S S. W far both fbom being rocky, ■( would be of very d«Dgcroiu conb- ^etioe to the whole leet 10 be too ncu- cither. Thereupoii I or~ itcTcd the Ggnii. u eight o'clock, to bring-to with Mir Urbowd i*ck«, ityisg oar faeadt to tbe Ibuthwud under a miaea and autn. ** About two hoonandifaalfafterwaidiijullulwainiiigtobed, Ae captain caaie 10 icll me he (iw tutd, which be concluded to be tbe (bnih fltore, ftosi all the circiusfUiiicct of our laft fight of i^ .and thedrifl wenafl ocedi have nuile, wiih our beftdt to the butb- ward. TbeiettpoQ 1 oidetcd him to make the Canal few the Beet ta wear and bring-to oo the othei lack, which figuarthe captaio accoid- ■BglyMade, " It bupeaed that captain Goddard, of lieutetunt-general Sey< «war'«reyaeot,WMallbat lioieoa hoard the Ednr, upon ibc quartet deck. Scctag the lea break to leeward a* (be iiiip bore away, and ^Mcheading woch danger, be cane down to me in great hafle, and -wai toy inlMwnioate that I tbonld come upon deck my&lf, for he (aid he law Mcakcr* all inund, and concluded ut to be in greti danger ; hut heiagabnd captain, and depending upon tbejudgmentof cipuin Paddoa, who gave ate no fnch notice, I had little regard to what btt Aid, believing it tobe tbe rerult only of fail (car that night mike bin fee danger wbete there wai none : however lie came down a fetond ■time, dcGiing rae, for the LonJ'i fake, to come upon deck mylelf, or we Ikould ccrtaiaJv be loD, for be faw bieaken all round ui: upoa khii hi* repeated impominiiy, and beaiing a more than orditury ooile and bnrry npcm deck, I put on my gown and Ib'pperii and coming upo* ^ck, GmiixI what he told me to be true, and all the people under a mighty conflemation, and ia great confnGoo. I called far the Frenc^ pilot, hut it WM fcune time belorc be came to me, not being then upon deck; in the iaterim, looking very carcfullf to leeu.rd, I ahought I faw no land wnder our Ice bow, for the Qup broacbiiiE-ta, btonght the breaken uadcr the lee quarter. 1 called out at loud ■■ 1 coald loanict tbe men, that I faw ik> land to leeward, the mono filtbeBbtc*juDgoat,and ihefiigcleaiiiigup. When tbepilelcaBe wM me it wai the north Ihore, which wac what wi leaQ cxpeOed ; i then ordered all the fail to be made that we cuold carry, and ftoorf «ff ffom At Ihorc into tba mid cfaauicl. Xhiring ihii buily^wrly c^ain Paddao had ordered an mchor to be ^ clav, wbicb. bei«c I oeald forbid it, wai lei go, le that I din&cd the liable to be («^ and fM «C AoM the ffasrt. *^ -About L;,Q,i,;.du,Goo^It: 461 itVES JiflD CHAiAtTktti Ot were made to favc the people, which, indeed, were fo fuccefsfui as td refcue five hundied who would othcrwife bave been included in this cver-to-bc-Iameiited difafler. After " About (WO ifa!* iii6rn!rig it fell de*d cilm. At kvttt I nud* the teiil to weir and flknd tvtf upon ihe other tick to ibt north fliore. Tbe TieiitenKOt of the Swifirure cane on board, 10 icll fac tbn Iwd feeit (burlhipi tfborelafl Hiaht, Ivhich iDay be conclQdcdloft.- I then ordehd captain Cook, infl inc jwo tendcri with bim, iaio ihc DioTC, to fafe ind f;eioffa11 the men ihai had cfcaped drolrning; vifiualling theAi (ill'iiulher order. I made the Ggnal for capuht Ronfc, and Tent Lim tmc of tbe Ficnch pilot), whicb I had 00 b6ard, to find oat a birlli near the wreeki where the fleet lould anchor. WfaiJefbniBiuio to tbe north (horc with all the flrei, one Mr. Alexander, Mafter olthe Ckathain trcnfport, that wai loft, came off to tell me, there were ei^l Oiipi mteck'it and near a thoufand men drowned, of which he save me llie partkulari. Oa iha Bjtb, havine flood all night to the luithward, ai one ihi* momiog, it blowing frdh, I made the Ggaal 10 vear and fland on ibe other laclc to the ttortb OMre; and becaalc I Mold net wiebor with the fleet betcaboiita, 1 had tbooghit of going 10 the Septlflca, but could not hear of any one of (he pilou that would midertake to tarry Ui thither ; and I wai ver)^ unwilling 10 return 10 Gafpee, ai being too far out of the river. While I revolved ibcfe mau tenifimy mind, dcliKningtoconrult the geOcial about. them, captain Harrifon*! adjutant came to me, from him. 1 told Um I wai j«fi suing to wail UDon the leaetat, and accordingly went do board tiic Windfor. Talking with tbe general concerning tbe prefent jnoo- (ure of alfain, he thought it abfolutcly neccAry to ha*e a council of war called, for confutung u 10 ihc proper meafurci to be uUn, in confeouenee of the late difafler. . " He hid got all the coloneli together, wai dcfircd the capiani of (he meaof'warmithi becoofulicd alfo, to whiehlcoafented, and or' dered the rigaali tobe made for ibe capuini 10 come on board the Wind- &r. lalfoOTderedalUhepiloii 10 come, for every bod^bcingdiBaiiiGcd with the dificuliies of getting op the fiver, it wai ibowht oeceiuy £rA(ube perfefllyiofurmcd of that matter; and Cncc the Tate uUmit)r 1 believed 1 could noi refufe 10 confult the captaini si propofed, for had I proceeded without iheii concurrence, and a fecond difiBcr en- (ued.'IflKiutdiben have been left wiibout any manner of eicnfc. ■• All the colo^eli being allembleii, I dcGred ibt caplaini i far uQuebec, n by ht>1 experieDte wU tlready f*oiid." Aiaproof aFiheliitlecircuiufpcAionureil at home In plaoiiing ihi« expedition, and the fniall aitcniion paid Eo iti fucceft by (he New EnalindcD, for whofc Tote benefit and advantage it waa contrived, we Ihall beg 10 coDcl ude thii extradcd account of Mie misfonune, with a paragra^ fiORi GrHoveoden'i leiier to Mr, Bnrchet after the mitfot- " A French pilot I had on botrd, who had been forty voyagei in that Kver, and eighteen in cc»nmaad, lold in«, that whenever it Imp* ]iened to be foggy, fo u not 10 fee the land, no man could everba •bit lojodge the curtenta, or Beer by any eourfe; that hehim&lf had lo(I two (hipi, and wai once call away «pon tbe north BxtiK, wben he thought faimfclf nnr the fouib. Me iai the ciHrenia were fo uncer> tain, that when people inighc kcEeve ihemfclTca upon the north, they would End themfelfet on the foath fharc, and fo on the eontiary, » we by difmal experience fouoili By all thii, it appein that tbing* have been wonderfally mlfreprefenied by tfaofe who bare pretended to perfuad; ui, in Great Biiiain, that fleeta might fail up the rivet to Quebec; and thii plainly demonQiatei, that tbe Dcople sf BoBon knew nothingof what they piopefcd, wEws tbcy Jaio fcumet for fodi aa «ptdili«tt." . I foiccment. . -iiizBinvGooglf 404 LIVES AMD CRAIACTEKS Ot fincoiieiit, or i luval force vna deemed ncceflary, am] fcpair to Engtand with tbc reft. Hit return was, cer- tainlyi the moA profpcrous part of the voyage, havior met with nothing that could retatd h, or xSi to thofe misfottunes be had already encountered. The miferable retnaitts of this formidabK equipment arrived fafe af St. Helen's «i dw 9th of Oiftobcr. Sti Hovendcn's ill fortune, however, ended not here* for, on the t5fh of the fame month, the Edgar, of feventy guns, the ftiip on board which he had hoiftcd his flag, blew up at Spithead; fevcral hundred pcrfons unhappily loft ^it lives; and.theadmira], indcpendantof aconltderable private property, all rtiofe pubhc papers, journals, and Kcotds, which might afterwards, to the confufioti of his enemies, have unqueflionably proved his innocence and integrity. Notwitbftanding his ill fuccefs, he had die happtnefs to be very gracioudy received by the queen, who knew well how to difcriminate between mif- nrtune and mifmanagement, and pofTefled a mind too noble to be poifoncdby the malicious infmuations of thofe whofe priftte purpofes it might anfwcr to cenfure, and condemn him. It is very evident that adminiftration did not by any means thiiik him culpable, for early in the following Ipring we find htm appointed to command a Iquadron, deftined for the Weft Indies, confifting of three ftiips of dw line and four frigate^. Having hoiftcd his flag on bbard the Monminith, he failed from St. Helen's on the aStb of April ; and, without meeting with any thing re- markable on his paiSige, arrived at Antigua on the 25th of June. Here ne was joined by the Diamond and Ex- periment frigates, who had taten nUhy prizes. He pro- «eded froii^ thence to Jamaica, where he arrived on the £th of July. No French armament being in that part of riie world, the detail of an enterprize cannot beexpeded, as he had neither troops nor inllniAions to attempt any thing by land. The time of his fervice palFed on without 9Ciy material encounter, though Caflard, a French commodore, arrived out with a fquadron of eight (hips of war, (eventeen or eighteen fmall veffeis, and a land fores *f five thdufapd men, and did rrtljch mifchief both at Nwris and St. Chiiftopher's. 'i'hcy attempted Antigua* DolizodbyGoOgle fol del HATAL OFFICtKS OF CBEAT BXITAIH. 465 wd were repulfed. A proclamation being made Toon af^r- waids for I ceOation of arms, fir Hovtrlderi recejved' or-_ den to return to England: complying wiA which, he' UTired in tlie ddwns on the' afchoiMay 1713. A^tr this done he had no appointment; But this was not. all ;' oh the acccfGbn hf George the Firft, by a procedure totally unpreccdenteil, unwarranted, illeed and tyrannical, ilie adtrtinilTratibh of that time, the admiralty bo^d, of; w^ch,^ — bludi valour, honour and.integrity, while his name is tefited, — RiJireVearlof Orford, was at that time flrft cotOTiiflioher/ tocA upon them to arraign his conduft on th« Canadian expedition. But becaufe the fair front of truth preventer any attack, or even fuggeftion agajnft hts tiulit»y<:on(luS, his eneitiies were content to change their ap'acic, and demand, peremptqrily, accounts that were de- ftroy^ with his (liip, and meanlv fugrnft an extravagant c^jfenditure, becaufc accident' had deprTved hini flfari oji. iKjrfufiity of refilling their charge. Uncondemned, for tio ihveiftigatipn was ev;^r made as to his guilt ; untried, bccai^ fe it was, perhaps, impof^ble to adduce any properly foiindcd charge againft him, he epdured all the difgrace, all thepu- niflinient attached to infamy, peculation, cowardice. The treatment he endured may afford this IclTon to future ages, that neither gallantry, irreproachable charafier, and thai fpecies of misfortune, which on other occafions excites pity and compaHion, are fuflicient to (hield a devoted vlflim from the rage of political oppreflion •. Ill * ii(dtw4 ^vw Di the-fotlawing Tcmirk, vid honounble xeamt of Jiint luihcDlie. at doubt, in eVcry ^ariicnlir, rwcpt that be mnr, Dfot^W^i be mistaken in. the due, a> 10 the uim he Gnr Um oa mm ** The ctTcof iheedminl. in the mean dne, wat vcfy>b«tdt X ncvn lifard, or could find, tktt inv ihtts^ «w liid to hit charge, m cqntiibuiine 10 the miiftKlone, 01 the letfl bUaie liid on hir eoadoA. Yci, iFier liie mifcarriigr, miny loud and invidiou* clamonrt vers riifcdiogenent, Mliboui delcendinK 10 ptriicnlan, laai&S him. He hi^ the ipiifoTUine to incor iIk rjifpleirure of foo^ody, and not otdf VH (afiertngthcF vougeiaihc Wefllndisa, of which I Ifaillgive'u •ccouni below j flmckoatof ibeliD a(Mlmin)i,'bQt oat of At taUf' |ny l<^ wo. Tbcre mry ha>e bren (bme ciicanlbiKei unlcnam u> nic ihii maf twvc •ccrlinncd hit difgricci bui upoo t vieW of what htt «9nie to 9iy kgovfedn, 1 hive ool bccB able roforhoar thinltiog 4iiinn>rduulM, crpeciillr fipcc (if I atAekemtlB tk ywr t7M> Voi.,11. Gg Ihd L„u,l,.™u,C00gl^ 466 LIVES AND CHAKACTERS OF In the cafe of (Ir Walter Raleigh h has ever beea tuged, that the injury done him confiflcil in executiDg tiim, not becaufe he was innocent, but becaufe the new comtniflioQ granted to him purged every offence he had been guilty, of. Ruffeli the patriot Rulfcl, would hav* been among the foremoft to have promulged this doSrin* in any instance where he himfelf was not the caiife of th« tyranny. By a parity of reaToning Cr Hovenden's ap- pointment to the Wed India command, pofterior to the Canadian expedition, entirely acquitted hjm, in a flri^ and legal {enfe, of any error he might be afterwaids fup- pofed to have committed during that period. NcverdK- lefst without undergoing that trial which every nun, even whofe guilt is of the mofl glaring and atrocious Jtind, has a natural and undoubted right to claim, be was not only deprived of his rank in the fervice but alfo of hit ball pay t the poor fubfiftence granted by a munificent na- tion, to preferve from want, (he old age of an omcer who had fpent hb belt blood, mXift certainly hii beft days, in its fervice*. With the trifling patrimony he inherited from bis ancellors, encreafed by his own care and abftemioufneTs, he retired to Ireland, where he hfaid to have died about the year 1725. WATSON, or WATTON, Peter.— There is, pro- bably, moreconfufion about this gentleman than any other I lad an opporranity of being icqualnicd irith faim, in Hamburg and Hanover, and fonnd him a gcnilcniin of leilfri, good underflanding, ' xtmiy wit, ami agreeable convcrCitian, and witbal tbe nofi ■bftenkitu nan livipg, fori never fiw, or beard, ihaf he drank anjr tliia| but waier, or eat any thing bai vcjfeublca, I hope be iben partook of hia Toyal maflet'i bounly ; the mioiflry, al leift, fceincd to look on bin witbi^ounbleeyc: and I. «ra> uivye-witnefi thai bit toyal hijfhncit,, the prinuvf Walci, whea, upoaacertaiaocciGon, we were both fo hif^yta bean bout or more aofietbeTiDhiaprelaBce, garc hinftvcr^ paeiMU leerpiion." * IF it fhould in ifier agei be a&ed, what ww ibe «rinc of tliil man? tbe only poini that can be adduced (o4ii clmgeii, thai bewaa the friend of Henry lit. John, vifcount Bdioabroke. The only fub- flaoCE of a efaarfp that atiichei in the fmaliett degm to him ii, ihu ba appeait 10 have aQed rather too math from bimlelf, wlibout con. - fulling tbofewho, ilihough ibey weierobardiQatetohiininconiBand, were, probtbly, capable of adnfing him | yet tht) very ctrcumfiuice thebitierdlofbiieiiuqica took no tiotice oT. 6 pcrfon L„u,i,.™u,CoO^Ii: HAV^L OFFICERS OF GREAT BRITAW. 4fi^ petfbn whp ever ferved in the navy. He is mentioned by two or three different names, and as many periods are officially given of his entrance into the sava) fervice.' We have already inferted an account of a Peter Wcrtton % whom we honeilly believe to have been the fame perfon as the prefent, of v^hom we are to endeavour to fay fomething farther. Jn fome official papers he is faid to have taken poft from the 31ft of Augiift i6ai, but the name of the. fliip is not given. The "firfl Information we haveto de- pend upon is, that he was appointed commander of the Lark, of fixteen guns, on the 17th of July 1691. He continued during the cnfuiog year in this fiiip, which ■was one of ihofe fent, under fir George Rpokc, to con- Toy the unfortunate Smyrna fleet. During the whole of that which followed he was employed in the fame Jbipu « cruifer in the Channel, a fervige in which he met with much fuccefs, having taken feveral valuable prizes. In the year 1695 he was promoted to fame Ihip of the line, but neither its name, nor the fervice in which it wa« employed, appear- He did not long retain thiscommand: the fiiip was difmantled at the time of the peace; and he received no other commiflion till after the acccffion of queen Anne : he was then appointed capt^n of the Saint Geoige of ninety-fix guns, the Ihip on board which fir Stafford Fairbarne carried his flag, during the Cadis cxpeditiwi, at jear-admiral of the white. Not long after -Ac return of 0ie fleet into port^ being infinn, be rptired altogether from the fervice, on a peniion of fix fhillinga «pd nine-pence a day. This he continued to enjoy tM the tirpe of his death, in the year 1717. WJNN, or WYNN, Robert,— the dcfcendant of an •ncient Welch family, was appointed commander of tha Cadiz Merchant fireihip on the i7th.of Fcbriiary 16^. In the following year he was promoted to the St. Martin's Prize, a fngRte of twenty-four guns, ftationed to be undec the immediate order of the lord lieutenant of Ireland for the jime being. -No notice is taken of him after this time till the acceffion of queen Anne, except that for fome ftort period during the war he commanded a Ihip of the line. In 170a he was made captain of the Swiftuire, t£ • Seepage as. G a fcventy ■ L„u,i,.™u,Coogli: 468 LIVES AND C^HABACTEKS OF feventy guns, one of the fhips fent, under fir G. Rooke, . on the C^diz expedition. lathe following year he accompanied (ir Cloiidnftey ^ovcl on his expedition to the Mediterranean; and, in J J04, ftiU continuiog to command the Swiftfure, he failed, under the command of fir George RookCf for the fama flstiof). During this feafon he eminently diftinguilhed hiinfelf at the attack of Gibraltar, and the bank off Malaga which fucceeded it, having borne a very aSive ,/Wid cofifpicuous fiiare in bc^. Hit name never occur- fiog in the &rvicc after this time, we believe him 10 have quitted it. and retired into Wjiles, his native countrjr, fooa utcjnvmrds. He dcd there, but ui what year 14 not (nown. iitoex by Google INDEX TO THa SECOND VOLUME. Page . A CTON, ThomM 379 ijL Aire, >mes - 3+ Bridge., obn(.d) - »4« BrMg.., ohn(3d) - 3H Allen, Thomu - 35 Bridaer, William • BritOe, Cbarlei 307 Allen, Williui - 4>s 4«9 Arthni, Robert - 3* Afliby. Aithui - 301S Broome, Saranel 41 Brown, Nathaniel - 499 AAton, Tbomu - 134 Buck, James 307 Atldnt, Clurles - 10 Bunpftead, John 34* Aylmer, George - tit Bnrke William BynarJ. Walter - 1 •J 3AKER, Jolm - 379 CARLISLE, Charlee - 91 Bmkt, Sirjaeob - 30« Barker, Jetkdiih . 407 Carman, John Chamberikin, CI«rd 3*7 >e>cmont,SUl - iii Chnmhill, Oeotgc - 4S Beer, Jobs - 38) Clark, Richard . 3>4 Beabow, John - 8»o Coal, Thomas 97 Betltele)', LoidCbnIe., Collins, Greenville S, ofStratton ■ - 87 Collins, William ■ sS ^Mteley. Lord John, of Cordon, David - Strattoit - - t2t ConfaUe, John - CommU, Charles - 409 Beft William ■ - >t 410 Btbb, Ed»inl - 384 Cornwall, Woolftan . 14.1 ter«!sr^4i Cotten, Andrew • ia Boteler, or Batler. Henry tto Crawley, Thomas . -307 loliiaii, William - ft Ctoft.,John Crofs, George 119 Bonnty, John - 140 B«.le.,-Pbin.ai - 408 14. Crofs, William 'Jflj Boys, Edmrd - 24' Crow, Jofah 387 Braithwaite, Jaa»« - 409 Ciow.Artony . J3 Sn.lj.fc John (in) - s, DAVIDSON. L„u,l,.™u,C00gli.' Page Pig.^ DAVIDSON. John - J08 - *!* Deane, Robert 309 Granville, John, Baron of ' DeUval, Sir Ralpli - Potheridge '55 Owing, Daniel ■88 Gtiydon, John 158 Dilkes, Sir Thomas - 241 GreenhiH, David - >S4 Dowjl, Robert 310 Green way, Jame» - 39* Douglafs, Andrei - 387 Griffith. Richard - +>S Dover, Howard 14. Grimfditch, John - T6j Draper, Thomaj 49- Gnmey, Edward - 39» Dunbir, lames 60 Guy, John 39* Dunbar, William ConfUble, t Lord Viicount 141 Haddocfe, Jofeph 49- Hailes, John 3>4 1:AST, William 49 Hancock. Robert - 39J Edwards, Richwi - 3"0 Harlow, Thoma. - 3"4 fclliot, Edmund '43 Harmwi, William - »S5 EIwu, Gerard 388 Hartley, Mark ■4 Eimns, Fleetwood - 413 HartnoH, John 4'7 Erani. John 389 Hailings, Amittnf £vftry, 6ir John - 253 Hadghton, Henry Hawltim. Chiriw - 'SS - 3'7 >AIRBORNE,S;rStaft Heath. Thomas ■ hi ford - Hf Heemfltirk, Lawrence, Fairfax, -Robert 31* : Van • i Frederic 6j Hngh«. WiUiam - tn FsrloDt;, Edward 49 - JACOB. Thomaa - S« GARDNER. Tbonias - 63 Jeimifet^ John .6, George, John Oifford, Sir William - 98 Jennings, Thoina« . 164 91 Jennings, Sir John - ,61 Oillam, Thomat - ^SJ Johnfon, Thoaia» ■ ■ 16s GUlery. Jamw 6? jGhnfon, John 3»9 Good,l'dward -' 88 Jones, Daniel S« »S4 ^n^per, Sir William - 41« Gather, James »S4 Gowran, Richard Fttz< KECK, Lawrence ^ 394 . Patrick. Lord . 134 Kempthom, Ropert Keicber, TbMias - . 3I« Prafton, Henry, Dolce of 98 '*fS L„u,l,.™u,C00^IC rNDfiX. Xerke, or Erlt, Charlw $j Kerr, WilUam - 311 Kerwonh, or Carveith, Jtichard - 394 Kig^iu, Wmiam - 276 Xiuigrcw, Junei - J37 KoIKngwonh, Thomas 42$ Kirby, Richud • 319 Kiik, John - 10 Kirk, Piercjr ' ■• ^ja King, CluiftopKer - 395 Xn^p, JohH > 426 LATON, Jolm - 166 LeaicT, lohn - - 395 Leake, Sir John - td6 Leake, or Lake, Sir An- drew - III Leeds, Peregrine dborne, Dnkeof Legge, Tkomat Leonard, Revert - 3 hey, Thonui - f Lighton, Thomas - 1 litrkton, Edward - 4 Lloyd, David Lyell. Thomas - 4 lUCDONBL.orl^cdo- nald. Raiklall - 1 Main,jQbn^lfl] - 1 Main, John (ad) - y M^jnr, James Manley, Francia • 41 Marlhall. Thomas - 2; Martin, Henry — 2; MaroD, John (ift) Maibo. John (ad) Maund, Chrillopher - 41S Maynard, Francis ■ Mees, Cetftee Mercer, Paid Mefteer, George MiUiTon, Gabnel - Mitthell, Sir Baldinore 396 33S Mitchell, Sir CarU Mitchell, Andrew Monk, ThQinas Montgomerv, JaflKs Mobdie, or Miidie, Ja Uundeo, Sir Joka Myng*, Chriftopher Page - los - »S as 179 • 18S NEVILLE, John - £j CT^eyille, Hon. Edward 34I- Newton, Roger - 341 Norris, Sir John -■ 341 OAKLET, Edward • 36Z PARSONS, Daaiel - £z Partridge, Robert ' - 401 Pedderi Andrew - 4x9 Peny, John - 439 Pichari or Fickard, Peter 74 Pomerqy, George Potter, AWahom •• Pottinger, Edward ' Poole, Benjanun Pound, Thomas Poullbn, or Ponltoa, Edward - Price, John Prowther, WiUiaai ' Pneb, Richard PnUian^ John RAINS, Tkoinat Randal, Edward Reynolds, Robert RMch, Jeremiah Robinfon, Thomas • RobinTon, Robert Robinibn, Henry Rook, Thomas Roope, Anthony Rowc, Symon 3'1 189 7' - '»i 403 -■ "7 '31 St. LOE. George . 95 Saunders, iiumphry . 3(13 uu,i,.™.,Coot^Ic INDEX. Saunderibn, Sii William 191 Vickan. William - 5?6 Scrope, Adrian 96 Vincent, Samuel It SiBCKt, Robert - 287 Vitdet. Ricliard - - 9& Sh^nStn.Vumi - 40* Wager, Sir Clisrlej • Wafeeliri, William - 437 Skort, Kitlard 403 SiJ Shovel.^ir Qouddlev IS WalfonT, Robert - - ShDVei; John Smith, Robert 43 > Walker, Sir Hovenden til S7 W^tern, Benjamin - Snnth.Thomu - 192L Ward, Janies 289 So™., JoMi +03 Warren, George - 405 Spragec, Thomai - Staggins, Charles, or Bl 120 Warren, Thomas - ago, Lf- Waters. Jofeph ago 3^ Watfon, or Watjon, -Stanley; Eiwitl "- tiz Peter . . 466 Stone, Wilji«n StiWdcr, George Stewart; Jamej araynej-Thomas 43' Weighmai), Frederic^ v/hS/ilpnucu'- .% '93 Whctjlone, Sir William zga- ^"monaia 7haiaa9 3S4 Whifton,John 33 Whiuker, Sir Edward 366 TAYLOR, John - III Wickham, Henry - 374 Teimant; Kbtthew - 57 Wild, or Wyld, Bawm Wilford, Robert - 11$ ' Tnuant, WttlUm - 58 59 Tichbom, Willwm - 189 Wilmot. Robert JTC ToUmKh, flr Talmafli; Winn, or Wynn, Robert 467 William igi Wifeman. Roben • - 213 Tgrtington, George Byng,' ' Wiflian, Sir James - 299 LorfVifconnt - '94 Woolgate, Stephen - 37? Townfend, Bryant - 289 Wotton, Peter 59 TorniTend, Sir Ifaac 364 Wright, William (,8) ^'J Trtlawney, William - 3* Wright, William (id) 305 TyrreU. John 32 Wright, John 40s Wyld, Thom« 59 URRY, Thomas - 36s Wyrill, Francis 214 VAUGHAN. Roger - 36s Young, Anthony 61 ERRATA. P«ge SS^r line the UR, for to Tenirkable nod w W' ^ *'>' firO./dr ihe Ibip riaff ibai. . END OF THE SKCOfD VOLUME. L„u,i,.™u,Goo^It;